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Africa
- Academic Info: African Studies
- Africa-Europe Group For Interdisciplinary Studies: Aegis is an open network of European Union universities and research institutions concerned with studies of Africa in the Social Sciences and Humanities. It aims to enhance the multilateral integration of existing resources, and to expand the range of resource linkages in the future.
- Africa in focus
- Africa Intelligence: News, analysis, and guides about the continent, individual countries, and top people, with archives.
- Africa News Online
- Africa Online: Broad range of news and information, with African music and radio online, chats, subscription newsletter, country connections, and newsgroups.
- Africa Renewal Online, United Nations: Seeks to provide timely and accurate news and analysis on the critical economic and development challenges facing the African continent. Its flagship publication is Africa Recovery magazine, which first appeared in 1987, but it also produces in-depth Briefing Papers, information kits, and other releases.
- Africa Research Central: Gateway site for archives, libraries, and museums with major collections of African primary sources in Africa, Europe, and North America.
- Africa Server: Aims aims to bring together information from and about Africa and to gather and present the activities in The Netherlands with regard to Africa . The information is meant for a broad audience, for visitors to Africa , for Africans in Holland and for people from the African continent. Its ambition is to become a gateway to Africa with ample attention to the power of culture, for the attractiveness of the continent. Africa is much more and different from the stereotype image of disaster, war and famine as projected in Europe.
- Africa South of the Sahara: selected internet resources: Prepared by Karen Fung for the Information and Communication Technology Group (ICTG), African Studies Association, USA.
- Africa Web Links
- African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes: ACCORD is an international civil-society organisation working throughout Africa to bring appropriate African solutions to the challenges posed by conflict on the continent.
- African Development Bank Group: The premier financial development institution of Africa, dedicated to combating poverty and improving the lives of people of the continent and engaged in the task of mobilising resources towards the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries
- African Political Resources
- African Studies Centre, University of Leiden: The only resource and documentation centre solely devoted to the study of Africa in the Netherlands. Its main objectives are: to promote and undertake scientific research on Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the field of the social sciences and humanities; to function as a national centre in the field of African studies and to contribute to the education and teaching in these sciences; and to promote the dissemination of knowledge and an understanding of African societies in the wider public sphere.
- African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania: Contains extensive references to on-line resources
- African Studies Internet Resources
- African Studies Quarterly: Published by the Center for African Studies, University of Florida
- African Union
- Afrika.no, the Norwegian Council for Africa: Links, news and debate
- Afrique francophone
- Afrol.com: Although there is no information available about who is maintaining this website it seems to be a valuable newsource and to contain useful links.
- AllAfrica.com: a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide. AllAfrica is one of a family of companies that aggregate, produce and distribute news from across Africa.
- Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh: Online research papers available.
- Commission for Africa: The Commission for Africa was launched by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in February 2004. The aim of the Commission was to take a fresh look at Africa’s past and present and the international community’s role in its development path.
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
- Conflict Trends:Published by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) which is an international civil-society organisation working throughout Africa to bring appropriate African solutions to the challenges posed by conflict on our continent.
- Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa: A Pan-African non-governmental organisation. Its constituencies are African research institutes, social science faculties of African universities as well as professional organisations. CODESRIA's principal objectives are facilitating research, promoting research-based publishing and creating multiple fora geared towards the exchange of views and information among African researchers. It challenges the fragmentation of research throug h the creation of thematic research networks that cut across linguistic and regional boundaries.
- Economic Community of West African States
- Femmes Africa Solidarité: FAS, through lobbying and advocacy activities, wants to implement a forceful strategy to mobilise, articulate and represent women's interests and concerns. In this way, it aims to promote the fact that women's issues are core to policy development and legislation at the national, regional and international level.
- H-Africa Network: a member of H-Net's consortium of scholarly lists. H-AFRICA encourages discussion of Africa's history, culture, and African studies generally. Resources from H-AFRICA and elsewhere are stored on the web site.
- Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
- Integrated Regional Information Networks: In sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia the need for an accurate picture of events on the ground is being met by IRIN, part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely, strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation and propaganda.
- Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa: NIZA is a politically independent organisation for the promotion of democracy in Southern Africa. It was founded in 1997 out of the merger of three anti-apartheid organisations dating from the 1960s: the Holland Committee on Southern Africa, the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Eduardo Mondlane Foundation.
- New Partnership For Africa’s Development: NEPAD is designed to address the current challenges facing the African continent. Issues such as the escalating poverty levels, underdevelopment and the continued marginalisation of Africa needed a new radical intervention, spearheaded by African leaders, to develop a new Vision that would guarantee Africa’s Renewal.
- Nile Basin Initiative: Aim is to achieve sustainable socio-economic development through the equitable utilization of, and benefit from, the common Nile Basin water resources. Current activities of the Nile Basin Initiative are geared towards preparing for the implementation of initial programs after the successful holding of the International Consortium for Co-operation on the Nile (ICCON) which was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 26 - 28 June 2001.
- South African Institute of International Affairs: An independent, non-governmental organisation which aims to promote a wider and more informed understanding of international issues among South Africans. It also seeks to educate, inform and facilitate contact between people concerned with South Africa's place in an interdependent world, and to contribute to the public debate on foreign policy.
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network: Aim is to provide a facility for raising the level and quality of public debate on poverty across the Southern African Development Community - SADC.
- Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa : Tralac is a not-for-profit organisation, building trade law capacity in the southern Africa region; in governments, the private sector and civil society.
- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
- World Bank Sub-Saharan Africa Information: Papers, discussion notes, and reports on economic, environmental, and social issues in Sub-Saharan Africa today, overall and by country.
- WWW Virtual Library: Africa