The mountains and highlands of Africa occur in the extreme north-west (Atlas and Rif mountains), in its eastern part (Ethiopian highlands,
the Ruwenzori range in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and the mountains of Kenya,
Rwanda and Burundi),
in central Africa (Cameroon and Angola),
in the south-east (Drakensberg mountains in South Africa and the eastern highlands of Madagascar)
and in isolated positions such as the Tibesti plateau in the central Sahara.