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Baie d'Ad-Dakhla
Baie d'Ad-Dakhla (Dakhla Bay) is a 37 km Ramsar wetland (site 1470, 2005) on Morocco's Atlantic Sahara, the country's second most important waterbird wintering site, with Zostera noltii beds and over 120 mollusc species.
Bangweulu
Bangweulu, "where the water meets the sky," is a Zambian wetland system of Lake Bangweulu, swamps, and floodplains in the upper Congo basin, drained by the Luapula River, home to the endemic black lechwe and shoebill, a Ramsar site co-managed since 2008.
Bangweulu - Mweru
Bangweulu - Mweru is a freshwater ecoregion covering the lakes and swamps of the Bangweulu and Mweru systems in southeastern DRC and northeastern Zambia, with rich endemic fauna.
Bangweulu Swamps
The Bangweulu Swamps, meaning "where the water meets the sky," are permanent swamps and seasonally flooded grasslands in northeastern Zambia, home to the endangered black lechwe.
Busanga Swamps
Located in Zambia's northwest near Kafue National Park, Busanga Swamps is a permanent wetland complex in the Lufupa River basin. It is a Ramsar site covering 2,000 km.
Chott de Zehrez Gharbi
Chott de Zehrez Gharbi (Zahrez Gharbi), Ramsar site 1295 in Djelfa, Algeria, designated 2003; a 52,200 ha endorheic saline depression on the high plateaus, important for waterbirds, halophytes, salt production, and grazing.
Chott Ech Chergui
Chott Ech Chergui, a large endorheic salt basin on Algeria's High Plateaus; Ramsar site 1052 (2001, 855,500 ha); second largest chott in North Africa, with thermal springs and migratory waterbirds.
Gambie-Koulountou
Gambie-Koulountou (Ramsar Site 1578) is a 368,193-hectare wetland in Boké region, Guinea, on the Senegal border, covering the Koulountou River floodplain, the Gambia River's main tributary, designated 14 November 2005.
Grande Sebkha d'Oran
Grande Sebkha d'Oran (Great Sebkha of Oran) is a 56,870-ha closed saline depression south of Oran, Algeria; Ramsar site 1055 since 2001, an IBA for greater flamingo, fed by a 1,890 km² endorheic basin with brine near 180 g/L chlorides.
Inner Niger Delta
The Inner Niger Delta (Delta intérieur du Niger) is a vast inland floodplain in central Mali, defined by the spreading Niger and Bani rivers between Djenné and Tombouctou.
Khor Abu Habil Inner Delta
Khor Abu Habil Inner Delta: Sudanese inland wetland (Ramsar Site no. 2485, 946,409 ha, designated 10 April 2022) 400 km southwest of Khartoum, formed by a seasonal river from the Nuba Mountains, with mayas pools and migratory waterbirds.
Luangwa Flood Plains
Luangwa Flood Plains: 250,000 ha Ramsar site (no. 1660, designated 2 February 2007) in Eastern Province, Zambia, along the unregulated Luangwa River; spans South Luangwa, North Luangwa, and Luambe national parks and three game management areas, with over 50 mammal and 400 bird species.
Niger Source
Niger Source is a 180,400-hectare Ramsar wetland in Faranah prefecture, Guinea, designated 17 January 2002, protecting the headwaters of the Niger River; also a Classified Forest since 1945.
Okavango Delta
Okavango Delta System: endorheic inland delta (alluvial fan) in north-western Botswana, fed by Angola's Okavango River; Ramsar site 1996, UNESCO World Heritage Site 2014; Africa's largest endorheic delta.
Plaine de Massenya
Plaine de Massenya is a 2,526,000-hectare Ramsar wetland (site no. 1839) in southwestern Chad's Baguirmi region, a Chari River floodplain depression designated in 2008 with 386 bird species.
Plaines d'inondation des Bahr Aouk et Salamat
The Plaines d'inondation des Bahr Aouk et Salamat is a vast Ramsar wetland in southeastern Chad, designated in 2006 and then the world's third-largest Ramsar site.
Sankarani-Fié
Sankarani-Fié is a Ramsar wetland site (no. 1167) in the Kankan region of Guinea, designated 17 January 2002, covering the Sankarani river basin; extended from 1,015,200 to 1,656,000 ha, noted for floodplains, fisheries, and hippopotami.
Sudd
The Sudd is Africa's largest wetland, a White Nile floodplain swamp in South Sudan covering about 57,000 km2, a 2006 Ramsar site famed for shoebill and antelope migrations and threatened by the unfinished Jonglei Canal.
Upper Zambezi Floodplains
Upper Zambezi Floodplains, or Barotse Floodplain (Bulozi Plain), a Ramsar floodplain-wetland ecoregion on the upper Zambezi in Zambia and Angola, annually flooded, flow-regulating, home of the Lozi people.
Zambezi Delta (landform)
Zambezi Delta, Mozambique landform at the Zambezi River's Indian Ocean mouth; 230 km coastline, 18,000 km2 wetlands, Ramsar Marromeu site, buffalo and wattled cranes, altered by Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams.
Zambezi Floodplains
Zambezi Floodplains: seasonally inundated wetlands along the Zambezi River, chiefly the Barotse Floodplain (9,000 km2 Ramsar site) plus Kafue Flats, Chobe, and Mana Pools, sustaining Lozi society, fisheries, and a seasonal flood pulse now altered by Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams.