Africa

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• Africa Action-- "National [U.S.] organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa. Through the provision of accessible information and analysis combined with the mobilization of public pressure we work to change the policies and policy-making processes of U.S. and multinational institutions toward Africa."

• Africa Institute of South Africa-- Research organization focusing on current affairs in Africa, such as the African Union, NEPAD, and foreign policy. Site has information about research programs, library and documentation center (with a searchable catalogue), new publications, and full text briefing papers on peace and governance issues.

• Africa Intelligence-- Excellent source of news, analysis, and guides about the continent, individual countries, and top people, with archives.

• Africa Leadership Forum-- Website of the Forum created by leading African statespersons to improve leadership skills in Africa, with news about Forum activities, digital library, many quality online publications on major African issues, and the magazine Africa Forum.

• AfricaNewsNow-- Links to breaking headlines about Africa from hundreds of top news sources around the world, with a search facility and subject browsing.

• Africa Online-- Broad range of news and information, with African music and radio online, chats, subscription newsletter, country connections, and newsgroups.

• Africa Research Central-- Gateway site for archives, libraries, and museums with major collections of African primary sources in Africa, Europe, and North America.

• Africa South of the Sahara-- Excellent and very broad annotated directory of  Internet resources by Karen Fung of the Stanford University Libraries, arranged by countries, regions, topics, or search, plus "Breaking News."

• African Development Bank Group-- "Multinational development bank supported by 77 nations (member countries) from Africa, North and South America, Europe and Asia... the premier financial development institution of Africa." Posts statistics, reports, and studies on African finance and development issues.

• African Union-- Site of the international organization for all African countries, with information about the AU, its work, and its member countries.

• Afrika.no-- Comprehensive guide from the the Norwegian Council for Africa, with an annotated links directory, news, background information, and an interactive forum.

• allAfrica-- AllAfrica Global Media's excellent one-stop source for current information on all of Africa, with a great number of reports from scores of Africa's leading newspapers, magazines, and news agencies, plus a large searchable archive.

• H-Africa Discussion Network-- "Member of H-Net's consortium of scholarly lists. H-Africa encourages discussion of Africa's history, culture, and African studies generally. Africanists of all disciplines are encouraged to subscribe." Many online resources for African studies.

• H-AfrPol Discussion Network-- Member of H-Net's consortium of scholarly lists. "On-line discussion forum, web site, and electronic service for scholars, students, teachers, diplomats, members of the international humanitarian community, and others interested in the serious study of current African politics."

• Integrated Regional Information Network-- From the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, providing searchable news items on crises in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Lex Africa: The Law Firm Network for Africa-- From Werksmans Attorneys of South Africa, a guide to law firms, business climate and operations, and much general information for many African countries.

• Reuters Africa-- Wide range of news about Africa from the Reuters News Agency.

• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa-- News, information, many statistics, and many online reports are available free in full-text from this United Nations regional organization. Great source for authoritative online economic information about Africa.

• USAfrica Home page-- An important source on Africa and United States-Africa relations.

• Washington Office on Africa-- A church-sponsored, non-profit advocacy organization seeking to articulate and promote changes in American policy toward Africa. Statements, reports and position papers are online.

• 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.

• World Wide Web Virtual Library: African Studies-- Very helpful and comprehensive,"an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries."