Africa: AfricaFocus Web Updates, 06/22/08

Africa: AfricaFocus Web Updates

AfricaFocus Bulletin
Jun 22, 2008 (080622)
(Web Updates)

Editor's Note

In the almost five years of publication of AfricaFocus Bulletin, the number of sources available to readers over the internet, by web and e-mail, has continued to grow exponentially. I am pleased that so many of you continue to find this occasional bulletin of carefully selected analysis useful.

I am also continuing to work to make the AfricaFocus website more useful to an even wider range of readers, most of whom (over 80%) arrive at the site through search engines, often searching for good information on issues currently in the news or for information on a specific country or issue.

As you know, they and you can find on the site a full archive of past AfricaFocus Bulletins (this one is number 338). The archive is also accessible by country and by topic. And a set of country pages gives additional background sources, including the most recent news and analysis from AllAfrica.com, IRIN, and Human Rights Watch.

This AfricaFocus Bulletin provides a quick update of new features recently added to http://www.africafocus.org, of recommended sites for current coverage and analysis of the crisis in Zimbabwe, and of new content added to http://www.noeasyvictories.org

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New on AfricaFocus

1. http://www.africafocus.org/plus/search1.php

Current African Policy Issues - An Africa Focus SmartSearch Includes AfricaFocus plus other carefully selected sites for quality information on African issues

2. Reuters Africa News Feeds by Country Now, in addition to news and analysis by country from AllAfrica.com, IRIN, and Human Rights Watch, each country news section also features the latest news from Reuters. See, for example: http://www.africafocus.org/country/zimbabwe_reut.php and http://www.africafocus.org/country/nigeria_reut.php
   
   
3. For those of you familiar with newsfeed, AfricaFocus has now added this option. Add an AfricaFocus RSS feed to your newsreader, blog, or website.

Two RSS feeds are now available. Choose from Most recent five bulletins at
http://www.africafocus.org/rss_recent05.php or
Most recent ten bulletins at
http://www.africafocus.org/rss_recent10.php

Recommended Links for Zimbabwe Updates

http://tinyurl.com/6mzweg
The most recent, up-to-the-minute, news compiled by Google

http://www.swradioafrica.com
Most recent news from "the independent voice of Zimbabve on shortwave" - includes audio podcasts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/africa/2008/zimbabwe BBC background and coverage

http://www.sokwanele.com
Zimbabwean site - includes detailed map and notes of incidents of violence

http://www.kubatana.net
Zimbabwean site - include wide variety of human rights and other civil society reports.

http://allafrica.com/zimbabwe
AllAfrica news from African press

http://www.africafocus.org/country/zimbabwe_reut.php Latest Reuters Africa News

New on No Easy Victories

1. Southern Africa Liberation History - An AfricaFocus SmartSearch http://www.noeasyvictories.org/search/smartsearch1.php
   
   
2. More Transcribed Interviews - new interview transcripts of interviews with activists during research for the book have been added, for a total of 16 now available:
   
   

1. Bill Sutherland http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int01_sutherland.php
   
   
2. George Houser http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int02_houser.php
   
   
3. E. S. Reddy http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int03_reddy.php
   
   
4. Charlene Mitchell http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int04_mitchell.php
   
   
5. Mary Jane Patterson http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int05_patterson.php
   
   
6. Ben Magubane http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int06_magubane.php
   
   
7. Robert Van Lierop http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int07_vanlierop.php
   
   
8. Prexy Nesbitt http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int08_nesbitt.php
   
   
9. Jennifer Davis http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int09_davis.php
   
   
10. Geri Augusto http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int10_augusto.php
    
    
11. Sylvia Hill (1st part, 2003) http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int11_hill.php
    
    
12. Edgar Lockwood http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int12_lockwood.php
    
    
13. Cherri Waters http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int13_waters.php
    
    
14. Dumisani Kumalo http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int14_kumalo.php
    
    
15. Frank Beeman http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int15_beeman.php
    
    
16. Sylvia Hill (2nd part, 2004) http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int16_hill.php

from africafocus@igc.org
date Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:34 AM subject Africa: AfricaFocus Web Updates

Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.