definiens: shall mean the countries, territori es, and all land which, as of the Amendment Effecti ve Date, comprise Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Bu rkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republi c of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gu inea - Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Ma yotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helen a, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha, Senegal, Seyche lles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, S udan, Swaziland, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania, T ogo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, and Zimbab we, whether or not any of the foregoing countries r emain a part of Africa, and including, without limitation, their successor countries, for example, in the ev ent that one or more parts of any of the foregoing countries secede s or splits from the remainder of such country, one or more parts of one of the foregoing countries combine wit h one or more parts of any other of the foregoing c ountries or one of the foregoing countries changes its name