West & Central Africa eSIM Guides

All 49 West and Central Africa guides in one index: 18 countries, 5 cities, 13 airports and the local SIM card options for each, grouped so you can plan a whole route rather than one stop.

Across West and Central Africa the same few groups, Orange, MTN, Moov Africa and Airtel, run most of the networks, yet a SIM from one country is a roaming SIM in the next, and a shared currency does not mean a shared phone plan. Local prepaid data is cheap and plentiful in Dakar, Accra, Abidjan, Lagos and Douala; the real cost is registration, which usually means a passport, a photo and sometimes fingerprints at a staffed counter. Travel eSIM coverage is uneven here: some countries are sold by all three providers we track, some by one, and a few by none.

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Check which providers sell your exact country before you fly. In this region the gap between three eSIM options and none can be a single border.

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