This region runs from the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf. It holds the strongest Stronghold in Africa, the Cape Wall at Cape Town. It also holds some of the largest Dead Cities on Earth, such as Cairo, Johannesburg and Tehran. The deserts dry the dead into Husk Zombies, so the dry lands hold few zombies but also little water. The wet green lands of East Africa keep the dead active. Game parks have lions, elephants and buffalo, and few people. Boats are the safest way to travel, on the coast, on the Nile and on Lake Victoria.
Cape Town is the home of the Cape Wall. A wall of concrete and shipping containers crosses the Cape Flats from Table Bay to False Bay, and about 250,000 people live behind it. Newcomers are blood tested at Salt River Gate. The Cape Wall Market is the biggest market in Africa, and Duncan Dock Harbor is the busiest Salt Fleet port on the continent. Lifeline runs Groote Schuur Clinic and also Atlantis Donor Camp outside the wall, where Mutated give blood for Booster Shots. Johannesburg and Pretoria are Dead Cities. Pickers sell entry to Johannesburg from a camp on a mine dump. Bloemfontein is a small Settlement on Naval Hill. Rangers still live at Skukuza in Kruger Park.
Lesotho is a mountain kingdom where hard winter frost freezes the dead. Its capital Maseru is a Stronghold on the Caledon River, powered by the Katse Dam and the Muela power station. It trades wool, mohair and blankets. Eswatini is a small kingdom where the king's regiments hold the Ezulwini Valley between Mbabane and Lobamba. Botswana is mostly the dry Kalahari. Gaborone is a small Settlement around its dam.
Namibia is desert, with very few people. Windhoek survives because the Goreangab Water Plant still turns used water into drinking water. Wild horses roam the desert, and shipwrecks line the Skeleton Coast. Angola's capital Luanda is a Dead City. Fishers hold the Ilha, a sand spit in Luanda bay, and Salt Fleet ships stop there.
Harare and Lusaka are Dead Cities. A raider gang holds Chikurubi Prison near Harare. Heroes Stadium Nest in Lusaka holds the biggest horde in Zambia. Farm families live near Lake Kariba, where the Kariba Dam still makes some power. Victoria Falls is the main river crossing. Lilongwe in Malawi is a small Settlement that stores grain in the old tobacco halls. Maputo in Mozambique is a Dead City, and fishers live on islands off the coast.
Antananarivo is a Stronghold on the high plateau, fed by rice paddies. Its wall runs along the river dikes, and newcomers cross at Ikopa Dike Gate. Many island villages never saw a zombie. Salt Fleet ships buy vanilla, cloves and rum at Toamasina Harbor on the east coast.
Nairobi, Kampala, Mombasa and Dar es Salaam are Dead Cities. Naivasha Rift Farm, on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, is the largest farm in the region. Island fishing Settlements such as Bugala Island Village hold Lake Victoria, the safest water in East Africa. Kigali is a Settlement of terraced farms. Dodoma is a Settlement with the only large vineyards in East Africa. The Serengeti and Maasai Mara are full of wild animals.
Addis Ababa is a Stronghold in the cool highlands, with Merkato Market and a Lifeline antibiotics lab at Black Lion Clinic. The Marked run Kotebe Quarantine Camp outside its wall. A garrison holds the Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile. Asmara runs wood-burning steam trains down to the coast. Djibouti City is a Settlement held from Camp Lemonnier, and it trades salt. Hargeisa sells camels to Arabia. Mogadishu is a Dead City and a pirate base.
The Nile is the main road of this land. Cairo is one of the great Dead Cities of the world. Pickers work from Giza Picker Camp by the pyramids, and Ramses Station Nest is the worst horde in Egypt. Aswan Boat Town, a floating town below the Aswan High Dam, is the biggest living town in Egypt. Port Sudan Harbor is a Salt Fleet stop on the Red Sea. Juba is the last big river port, past the Sudd swamps.
Jerusalem is a Settlement inside the walls of the Old City, open only at Jaffa Gate. Beirut, Damascus and Amman are Dead Cities. Raiders hold Amman Citadel Camp and charge a toll to cross the city. Mountain villages in Lebanon and Syria survive by closing their roads.
Baghdad and Tehran are Dead Cities. Army deserters hold the Baghdad Green Zone. Families live on reed islands in the southern marshes of Iraq. The Bushehr nuclear plant melted down and is now a Hot Zone. Mountain villages in Iran farm terraces and herd goats.
Almost all of Arabia is desert, and the dead there are Husks. Riyadh, Kuwait City, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Dubai are Dead Cities with no water. Burj Khalifa Dead Zone in Dubai is full of Husks. Raiders hold the oil fields and boil crude oil into rough fuel at Ghawar Raider Camp. Muscat in Oman is the only Stronghold in Arabia. It sits between mountains and sea, and Sultan Qaboos Port is the main Salt Fleet stop in Arabia. Yemen's capital Sanaa is a Dead City.