Recipient profiles
select a recipientChoose any of the 54 African states to see its external security profile — arms imports and their sources, conflict context, defence-cooperation ties, hosted foreign forces and embargoes, 2000–2025.
Head-to-head
Arms imports by year (TIV) — solid = first state, dashed = comparison
On the map
The selected state highlighted within its sub-region · click any other state to switch profile
Legend
Arms imports by era
Delivered TIV received, five-year windows
Share of all African imports
The state's % of continental deliveries, by era
Where its arms come from
Leading suppliers — % of the state's arms imports · bar colour = supplier bloc
Conflict context
ACLED political-violence fatalities per year
Presence, pacts & constraints
All recipients at a glance
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Total delivered TIV, 2000–2025 · click to open
All recipients
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Dependence on a single supplier
Top importers — share of arms from their largest supplier (bar colour = that supplier's bloc) · click to open
Recipients by political regime
V-Dem regime classification across all 54 African states
Deliveries and regime type
How each supplier bloc's delivered TIV splits across recipient regime types — recipients classified by their latest V-Dem regime; deliveries cover 2000–2025