Africa
- Egypt
- Monarch - Fuad I, King of Egypt (1917–1936)
- Prime Minister -
- Ahmad Ziwar Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1924–1926)
- Adli Yakan Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1926–1927)
- Ethiopia
- Monarch - Zewditu I, Empress of Ethiopia (1916–1930)
- Chief Minister - Habte Giyorgis, Chief Minister of Ethiopia (1909–1927)
- Liberia
- President - Charles D. B. King, President of Liberia (1920–1930)
- Rif (unrecognized secessionist state)
- dissolved and re-integrated into the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco on 27 May 1926
- Head of State - Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Head of State of Rif (1921–1926)
- South Africa
- Monarch - George V, King of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas (1910–1936)
- Governor-General - Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of South Africa (1924–1931)
- Prime Minister - J. B. M. Hertzog, Prime Minister of South Africa (1924–1939)
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