The UNESCO electoral African States (Group V(a)) consists of the following countries:
| Angola* |  |
| Benin | |
| Botswana | |
| Burkina Faso | |
| Burundi | |
| Cabo verde | |
| Cameroon | |
| Central African Republic | |
| Chad | |
| Comoros | |
| Congo | |
| Côte d'Ivoire | |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| Djibouti | |
| Equatorial Guinea | |
| Eritrea | |
| Eswatini | |
| Ethiopia | |
| Gabon | |
| Gambia* | |
| Ghana | |
| Guinea | |
| Guinea-Bissau | |
| Kenya | |
| Lesotho | |
| Liberia | |
| Madagascar | |
| Malawi | |
| Mali | |
| Mauritius | |
| Mozambique | |
| Namibia | |
| Niger | |
| Nigeria | |
| Rwanda | |
| Sao Tome and Principe | |
| Senegal | |
| Seychelles | |
| Sierra Leone | |
| Somalia | |
| South Africa | |
| South Sudan | |
| Togo | |
| Uganda | |
| United Republic of Tanzania | |
| Zambia* | |
| Zimbabwe |
* Voting TCG Member State