African countries

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. It is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagoes.

Described below are some example countries within Africa.

Angola
Angola is a country within the southern region of the African continent. Like Mozambique, it was also a former Portuguese colony.

It was involved in a long war of independence against Portugal, starting in 1961, with the conflict eventually ending in 1975 after a treaty was signed by the various groups. Several soldiers within Big Boss's private military group, the Militaires Sans Frontieres, were later dispatched to Angola during the final stages of the conflict, a job that Kazuhira Miller, during a secret business dealing with Cipher taking place before an internal rebellion instigated by Cipher occurred, also alluded to. However, the period of peace was extremely brief, leading up to a civil war that lasted from 1975 until 2002.

Liberia
Liberia, also known as the Republic of Liberia, is a country within the Western region of the African continent, located west of Côte d'Ivoire. It was founded in the late 1800s as a place to put relocate freed slaves if they wished to return to Africa. Jack, better known as Raiden, was born in this country.

During the late 1980s, specifically 1989-1996, a civil war that would come to be known as the First Liberian Civil War occurred. A boy, Jack, was later recruited into a unit of child soldiers commanded by Solidus Snake, after the latter murdered the former's parents.

In recently uploaded images for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, there was a map with various locations marked, as well as Cote D'Ivoire being east of the location, implying that Liberia would play a major role in the game.

Mozambique
Mozambique was a country within the Southern region of the African continent. Frank Jaegar, later known as Gray Fox, originated in this area.

Mozambique was part of Portugal since 1498. However, on September 25, 1964, a liberation movement called FRELIMO attempted an overthrow of the Portuguese administration leading to the Mozambican War of Independence, a conflict that Big Boss, during his mercenary days, also briefly participated in the year 1966 acting under the employ of the Portuguese government. The war of independence eventually entered a ceasefire on September 8, 1974, with the war eventually ending for good on June 25, 1975 with Mozambique gaining its independence. However, approximately 2 years later, conflict resumed in Mozambique in the form of a civil war between FREMILO and RENAMO, the latter being backed by Rhodesia. Gray Fox eventually participated in the conflict as a RENAMO operative before he got captured and tortured up to Big Boss, who was also involved in the conflict, rescuing Gray Fox from imprisonment as well as evacuating a girl from Rhodesia from the war zone.

South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of Africa. To the north lie the neighboring countries of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an enclave surrounded by South African territory. South Africa is a multi-ethnic nation and has diverse cultures and languages.

The mercenary nation of Outer Heaven emerged in South Africa in the 1980s, 200 kilometers north of Garzburg.

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. The capital is Harare. Zimbabwe achieved de jure sovereignty from the United Kingdom in April 1980, following 14 years as an unrecognised state under the conservative white minority government of Rhodesia, which unilaterally declared independence in 1965.

Geneticist Naomi Hunter hailed from Rhodesia, where she was rescued as a young girl by Frank Jaeger, during the civil war.