Can you use Stripe in your African country? Here’s the 2025 list.

Stripe, the global payments technology company powering businesses from startups to large enterprises, is a sought-after platform for African online founders. While widely used in the U.S. and Europe, Stripe’s direct payment processing availability in Africa remains limited to a few countries.

However, Stripe is rapidly expanding other services, particularly its tax automation tools across the continent. As of May 2025, its Stripe Tax product, which calculates sales tax, VAT, and GST, supports 102 countries globally, significantly up from 57 in 2024. This expansion includes availability in 19 African nations, helping startups comply with local regulations and facilitate global scaling.

Here’s the full list of Stripe Tax-supported countries in Africa as of May 2025:

• Angola
  
• Benin (New)
  
• Burkina Faso (New)
  
• Cameroon (New)
  
• Cape Verde (New)
  
• Democratic Republic of Congo
  
• Egypt
  
• Ethiopia (New)
  
• Guinea
  
• Kenya
  
• Mauritania
  
• Morocco
  
• Nigeria
  
• Senegal
  
• South Africa
  
• Tanzania
  
• Uganda
  
• Zambia
  
• Zimbabwe
  

What About Other African Markets?

Even if Stripe doesn’t process payments in your country yet, it’s still showing signs of deeper African expansion.

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At Stripe Sessions 2025, the company announced that its tax automation product now supports five new African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde and Ethiopia.

Stripe has not yet launched full payments support in African countries like Algeria, Rwanda Botswana, Gabon or Gambia. But there’s a workaround.

If you live in one of these countries, you can use Stripe Atlas — a product that lets you register a U.S.-based company, open a U.S. bank account, and access the full suite of Stripe tools from anywhere.

Algerian and Rwandan entrepreneurs, in particular, have used Atlas to build export-focused businesses that charge international customers and scale globally. While Stripe isn’t everywhere in Africa yet, it is planting seeds across the continent and building the rails for the next generation of internet businesses.