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December 06, 1995
African Studies
Columbia University
- African Studies (Joseph Caruso)
General News Services and Internet Information on Africa
African-American & the Diaspora
African and Afro-American Studies Program, St. Louis
African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University, St. Louis is an interdisciplinary
academic program, largely concentrated in the social sciences and the humanities. Principal
geographical areas of concentration are the sub-Saharan African continent and the United States of
America.
Business
The African Stock Exchange Guide
Includes an overview of the companies listed on the Stock Exchanges in Africa, mostly Southern
Africa.
Contry Specific
Angola:
Angola Peace Monitor
The Angola Peace Monitor is produced every month by ACTSA - Action for Southern Africa, the
successor organisationto the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. It is produced as our contribution
towards the work of the Angola Emergency Campaign, which seeks to highlight the need for international
action in support of peace and democracy in Angola.
Burundi:
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Cameroon:
The Home Page of The Republic of
Cameroon
This page, we hope, will provide you with information from Cameroonians about The Republic of
Cameroon; its geography, the warmth and friendliness of its people, its government, its economy, its
cultures and traditions, and its communications infrastructures.
Cote d'Ivoire:
Republique de Cote
d'Ivoire Home Page (Gunnar Hillgartner)
Includes wide range of information on Cote d'Ivoire.
Eritrea:
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Ethiopia:
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Kenya:
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Kilimanjaro Adventure Travel
Includes pictures, and travel infomation to various parts of Africa
Libya:
The "Green Book
This presents the "Green Book" (Kitab al-Akhdar) of Muammar al-Qaddafy. It is presented with exact
page breaks and line breaks, as originally published.
Malagasy:
Malagasy Indo-autralomalesian
Phytogeographic Connections (George Schatz)
This paper was presented at the International Symposium on the Biogeography of Madagascar held in
Paris 26-28 September 1995. The printed version of the paper will appear in the Symposium volume in
early 1996 (Schatz, G.E. Malagasy/Indo-Australo-Malesian phytogeographic connections. In: W.R.
Louren¨o (ed.), Biogeography of Madagascar. Editions ORSTOM, Paris
Malawi:
Sustainable Development Networking Programme
(SDNP) in Malawi
Draft of UNDP Project Document, Lilongwe, Malawi, 6 August 1995
Mozambique:
Sustainable Development Networking Programme
(SDNP) in Mozambique
Draft of UNDP Project Document, Maputo, 21 July 1995
Rwanda:
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Rwanda: Special Report
Over 100,000 children were separated from their families during the 1994 massacres. It's a
painstaking but by no means hopeless task - over 9,000 children have now been re-united with their
families. ©Photo: Unicef
Special Focus on the Rwandan Refugee Crisis
World Disasters Under th Volcanoes, was written by John Sparrow, and edited by Nick Cater and
Peter Walker. HTML conversion by Jeremy Mortimer. For printed versions contact the Federation's
Disaster Policy Department or your National Red Cross or Red Crescent Society.
Somalia:
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Sudan:
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Sudan Home Page (Yasin Y. Miheisi)
The purpose of this page is to provide background information about Sudan, review of current
events and developments, news, resource guides and links to other relevant sources of
infromation.
Sudanese and Sufi History
21 years of Sudanese and Sufi History at Bergen (Norway), 1972-93. A note on research and
resources
South Africa:
South African Government of National Unity
South Africa's Government of National Unity (GNU) is a constitutionally-defined multi-party
government consisting of seven political parties that were voted to power in South Africa's first
democratic elections, in April 1994.
Tanzania:
Kilimanjaro Adventure Travel
Includes pictures, and travel infomation to various parts of Africa
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Uganda:
Greater Horn Information Exchange
The GHIE, a no-fee resource accessible via email, telnet, gopher, and the WWW, is catalyzing the
sharing of site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, data sets, scientific papers and analyses.
Field operations guides, disaster histories, and activity summaries are being added. Through an
exciting tool called Interactive Data Rendering, GHIE users can select data to create
application.
Zimbabwe:
ZimbWeb
ZimWEB was created so that the resources and wealth offered by Zimbabwe that would have otherwise
been undiscovered and inaccessible, are made accessible on the internet. ZimWEB was created primarily
for Zimbabweans and for those affiliated with Zimbabwe, and is also geared to provide information and
services to those people around the world interested in Zimbabwe.
Environment
African Bird Club
Aim inculde: provide a worldwide focus for African ornithology, encourage an interest in the
conservation of the birds of the region, publish a twice-yearly colour bulletin, etc.
Malagasy Indo-autralomalesian
Phytogeographic Connections (George Schatz)
This paper was presented at the International Symposium on the Biogeography of Madagascar held in
Paris 26-28 September 1995. The printed version of the paper will appear in the Symposium volume in
early 1996 (Schatz, G.E. Malagasy/Indo-Australo-Malesian phytogeographic connections. In: W.R.
Louren¨o (ed.), Biogeography of Madagascar. Editions ORSTOM, Paris
Food & Agriculture
USAID Famine Early Warning System
Famine Early Warning system in affected African countries.
Human Rights
Amnesty International: Africa
OneWorld News: Africa
OneWorld Online is a member of the BBC's Networking Club. The BBC has always been committed to the
importance of broadcasting global issues in its radio and television programmes. Each week the
OneWorld news team updates, inititiates or highlights a news feature from some part of the globe where
the one world values of human dignity and justice are being undermined or upheld.
Rwanda: Special Report
Over 100,000 children were separated from their families during the 1994 massacres. It's a
painstaking but by no means hopeless task - over 9,000 children have now been re-united with their
families. ©Photo: Unicef
Special Focus on the Rwandan Refugee Crisis
World Disasters Under th Volcanoes, was written by John Sparrow, and edited by Nick Cater and
Peter Walker. HTML conversion by Jeremy Mortimer. For printed versions contact the Federation's
Disaster Policy Department or your National Red Cross or Red Crescent Society.
Languages
Arabic Resources
Includes Arabic lesson, information on Arabic software, Arabic learning, etc.
Maps & Satellites
Earthrise: Africa
Over the years since the first manned space flight, more than 200,000 photographs of the Earth
have been taken by astronauts in orbit. The EarthRISE database is an online collection of over 20,000
of these images taken during the Space Shuttle flights STS41G, STS059, and STS068
Music
C.K. Ladzekpo Home Page
Includes information on music and culture of the Ewe and other African ethnic groups, along with
related graphics, sound, and videos.
Networking
APC Networks & GreenNet Partners:
Africa
GreenNet works with a number of other electronic networking organisations around the world, who
share their aims. Some of these are members of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC),
others are partners which are not yet ready to become full APC members, but wish to share APC
information.
Networking in Africa
Provides relevant information on each country's: Connectivity Providers, Network Activity
Updates, Reports and Papers, Miscellaneous Items on Networking.
Sustainable Development Networking Programme
(SDNP) in Malawi
Draft of UNDP Project Document, Lilongwe, Malawi, 6 August 1995
Sustainable Development Networking Programme
(SDNP) in Mozambique
Draft of UNDP Project Document, Maputo, 21 July 1995
Population Studies
African Demography: Country Specific
Demographic information on some African Countries, from University of Pennsylvania
Publications
African Publishing Home Page
Includes information from African publishers (and from the American Association for the
Advancement of Science Sub-Saharan Africa Program), African Crop Science Society, Centre for Advanced
Social Science, CODESRIA, etc.
Angola Peace Monitor
The Angola Peace Monitor is produced every month by ACTSA - Action for Southern Africa, the
successor organisationto the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. It is produced as our contribution
towards the work of the Angola Emergency Campaign, which seeks to highlight the need for international
action in support of peace and democracy in Angola.
Avebury African Studies
Catalogue
Avebury is among the world leaders in publishing authoritative research studies in the social
sciences. In recent years, Avebury has developed a highly successful list which includes some of the
most important research written by scholars affiliated with the world's most respected universities
and institutions.
Bamako Convention
Bamako Convention on the ban of the import into Africa and the control of transboundary movement
and management of hazardous wastes within Africa (1991)
Sudanic Africa
Sudanic Africa is an international academic journal devoted to the presentation and discussion of
historical sources on the Sudanic belt, the area between the Sahara and the Bay of Niger, the Atlantic
and the Indian Oceans. The journal typically presents such sources in the original language and in
translation, with comments.
Relief Agencies
Africa Liaison Project
In keeping with the Development Fund for Africa (DFA) legislation, and funded by a grant from the
AID Africa Bureau, the Africa Liaison Project fosters communication, cooperation and collaboration on
development initiatives in Africa among US PVOs, African NGOs and AID. The Africa Liaison Project
regularly publishes announcements and summaries of all activities in InterActions newsletter, Monday
Developments.
Travel
Kilimanjaro Adventure Travel
Includes pictures, and travel infomation to various parts of Africa
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