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West Africa

Angola
Botswana
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Congo-Brazzaville  (Rep. of the Congo)
Congo-Kinshasa  (Dem. Rep. of the Congo)
Côte d’Ivoire
  1. Background
  2. Laurent Gbagbo and ivoirité
  3. Theater of Violence
Ghana
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Conakry
Lesotho
Liberia
  1. Taylor Out
  2. More on Liberia
  3. Liberia has a Date
Mauritania
  1. Coup in Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
  1. This House has Fallen
  2. Oil Worker Strike in Nigeria
Rwanda
  1. Timeline
  2. More Links & Info
  3. Reflections on Violence and Justice
Senegal
Sierra Leone
South Africa, Republic of
Togo
  1. Watch out Togo
  2. Togo's constitutional crisis deepens
  3. Togo's President steps down
  4. Togo Aflame Again
Uganda
  1. In Uganda: about the LRA
Zambia

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RESOURCES
Government
See also Ecology
Gov't & Ref Sites (Gunnar Anzinger)
US AID | Sub-Saharan Africa
CIA World Factbook
Country Analysis Briefs
Department of Energy (US)
Country Studies
Library of Congress (US)

Multilateral
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Datafinder-
courtesy Population Reference Bureau
Labor Statistics
International Labor Organization
United Nations agencies & bureaux

News & Media
Accra Daily Mail (Ghana)
Africa Confidential (London)
Short summaries available to non-subscribers
African Geopolitics (London)
Quarterly Online Journal
Afrol
Al-Jazeera.Net English - Home Page
Angola Press (Parastatal)
Mail & Guardian Online (RSA)
AllAfrica.com
IRIN news
This Day (Nigeria)

NGO/University: Current Info
Africa Action
excellent scholarly resource on Africa
African Online Digital Library
Internet Resources on Africa
Columbia University | West African Studies
African Studies | Country Page
University of Pennsylvania
Africa Data Dissimination Service
Centre for Policy Studies (RSA)
Africa South of the Sahara
Stanford Online Catalog
Amnesty International | Africa
Human Rights Watch | Africa
Behind the Mask
Gay/Lesbian Issues in Africa
Human Rights Watch | Africa
International Crisis Group | Africa

NGO/University: History
Amistad Research Center
Tulane University
African Studies
Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway
Comparative Studies of S. Asia, Africa & the Middle East
Duke University
African History Internet Sourcebook
Fordham University
Frank E Smith | World History
Crisis States Research
London School of Economics
Stanford University | African History
Repositories of Primary Sources
University of Idaho
Crucial Weblogs
See also Ecology
African Path
African Update
Semiprofessional analysis; all Africa
Benn loxo du taccu (Matt Yanchyshyn-Senegal)
Black Looks (Spain)
African feminist
Black Star Journal (Brian)
Insights of a former Peace Corps volunteer
Chippla Vandu
Very thoughtful, mostly about Nigeria
Ethan Zuckerman
‘Gbenga Sesan (Nigeria)
Technology and governance; very good
Grandiose Parlor (Nigerian | USA)
Head Heeb (global)
Mad Kenyan Woman (Wambui Mwangi|USA)
Excellent writing, a very dry wit
Wordsbody (Molara Wood, Nigerian-UK)
Art & feminism with a cosmopolitan POV
Musings of a Naijaman (Nigerian | UK)
Literate & low-key; thoughtful & original
Ramblings of an African Geek (Ghana|USA)
Physics student and Sci-Fi enthusiast.
Sotho (Lesotho)
Under the Lemon Tree (Gambia)
Yebo Gogo (South Africa)

Weblog / News Aggregators
PBase Angola | Botswana | Burkina | Cameroon | Congo | Ghana | Mali | Namibia | Nigeria | Rwanda | South Africa | Uganda
Flickr Africa | Cameroon | Ghana | Nigeria | Niger | Sierra Leone | Uganda
Blog Africa
feeds from blogs related to Africa
Schema-Root | Africa

Global Voices
Sub-Saharan African sites