Africa
- Egypt
- Monarch - Farouk I, King of Egypt (1936–1952)
- Prime Minister -
- Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1945–1946)
- Isma'il Sidqi, Prime Minister of Egypt (1946)
- Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1946–1948)
- Ethiopia
- Monarch - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930–1974)
- Prime Minister - Makonnen Endelkachew, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (1942–1957)
- Liberia
- President - William Tubman, President of Liberia (1944–1971)
- South Africa
- Monarch - George VI, King of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas (1936–1952)
- Governor-General -
- Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, Officer Administering the Government of South Africa (1943–1946)
- Gideon Brand van Zyl, Governor-General of South Africa (1946–1951)
- Prime Minister - Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (1939–1948)
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