African countries are among the prime destinations of electronic waste (e-waste) and have been challenged with the management of its environmental and health impacts. This paper was carried out understand the e-waste sector and policy responses in selected African countries. Data for the study were generated from sources; such as policy documents, legislations and literature. Findings show that the import of WEEE is on rising in Africa while landfill and incineration continued to be widely used handling approaches. Countries studied lack WEEE specific national policies and stringent policy instruments to enforce proper collection and recycling systems. Despite the emerging recycling operations, a major gap is that informal e-waste actors dominate the e-waste chain from collection to material extraction and refurbish activities through rudimentary tools that cannot detect toxic elements. Tackling the problem demands integrated interventions with multiple stakeholders to reduce WEEE inflow in one hand, and ramping up safe recycling capacity on the other hand.

非洲国家是电子废物（电子废物）的主要目的地之一，并且在管理其环境和健康影响方面面临挑战。本文进行了了解电子废物部门和某些非洲国家的政策对策。研究数据来自资料来源；例如政策文件，法律和文献。调查结果表明，在非洲，WEEE的进口量正在增加，而垃圾填埋和焚烧仍是广泛使用的处理方法。被研究的国家缺乏WEEE特定的国家政策和严格的政策工具来实施适当的收集和回收系统。尽管回收业务正在兴起，一个主要的差距是，非正式的电子废物参与者通过无法检测有毒元素的基本工具主导着从收集到材料提取和翻新活动的电子废物链。解决该问题需要与多个利益相关者进行综合干预，一方面减少WEEE的流入，另一方面提高安全回收能力。