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Al Jazeera English - News medium.

AL-BAB began in February 1998 as "Yemen Gateway". The website seeks to provide links, background information and context about the Arab world.

Arabic music organised by country.

Articles and analysis from an organization campaigning for human rights in Algeria.

A directory of links to education, government, ministries, Algerian embassies, chambers of commerce, journals, radio, TV, and more.

All Africa is an important provider of news from and about Africa. All Africa aggregates and distributes news from many African and international news sources and media.

Archive with material from the Herbert Lang and James Chapin northeastern Belgian Congo expedition (1909 - 1915).

Provides news and publications about human rights wordwide.

Provides news and publications about human rights wordwide.

Resources on ancient Egypt, composed by Columbia University Libraries.

Lists films made after 1930 with an Egyptian theme.

A comprehensive overview of contemporary folk, alternative, R&B and Kuduro bands and singers and Kwaito/Hip-Hop.

Social and economic statistics about Djibouti (in French).

The International Institute for Social History (Netherlands) offers access to archives from NiZA (Dutch Institute for Southern Africa, now ActionAid), fully processed by archivist Kier Schuringa, in alphabetical order. These archives are all freely accessible. All inventories are in Dutch only.

The Arab Development Portal (ADP) is an initiative of the Coordination Group of Arab, National and Regional Development Institutions (CG), the Islamic Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The initiative aims to enhance the knowledge of people on development in the Arab region.

Since 2011, conservators, photographers, and students working on the Archive of Malian Photography in Bamako have been cleaning, restoring, preserving, digitizing, and cataloging archival collections in Mali to safeguard original materials from further damage and theft, and to promote their global accessibility to research and education in the form of low-resolution digital collections online and at the Maison Africaine de la Photographie in Bamako.

This web portal provides bibliographic and discographic references to Madagascar’s music and access to texts, pictures and music clips (in French and English).

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects the dates, actors, types of violence, locations, and fatalities of all reported political violence and protest events across Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America.

The Mapping Arms Data (MAD) 1992-2014 visualization project is produced by PRIO and the Igarapé Institute. It represents an upgrade of the original global small arms, light weapons and ammunition visualization produced by Google as part of the Google Ideas INFO (Illicit Networks Forces in Opposition) Summit with support from the Igarapé Institute.

The Historical Archive of Mozambique collects documents from colonial times up to independence in 1975.

Provides access to the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) community network of (international) Africa experts.

The official website of the National Assembly of Congo (in French).

The official website of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso (in French).

Official government website providing news and information about Niger, its constitution and president (in French).

The official website of the National Assembly of Mauritania with information on the Constitution and Parliament (in French and Arabic).

The official website of the National Assembly of the Comoros (in French).

This official site of the National Assembly of Madagascar (in French).

The official website of the National People's Assembly of Algeria (in Arabic and French).

The website of the Association of African Universities.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA), in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), have developed an ATLAS OF AFRICA ENERGY RESOURCES to graphically illustrate where the resources are, where the potential for expansion occurs and what the possible impacts on the environment could be. It provides visual information on the challenges and opportunities to providing Africa’s population with access to reliable, a fordable and modern energy services.

The Atlas of Mutual Heritage is a database with information, maps, drawings, prints and paintings of locations related to the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) and the West-Indische Compagnie (WIC).

The Atlas of Urban Expansion of the NYU Urban Expansion Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and the Stern School of Business of New York University, in partnership with UN-Habitat and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, monitors the quantitative and qualitative aspects of global urban expansion.

This private library was set up in 1971 as a specialist library and archives on Southern Africa. It has a vast Namibian archive and is considered to be the biggest library and archive on Namibia outside the country.

The International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education (HEDBIB) is a unique resource of references and publications on higher education systems, administration, planning, policy and evaluation from around the world. Links to electronic publications are provided where freely available. New higher education publications are identified by the IAU Information Centre monitoring team.

Covers Africana periodical literature on a specific country.

This is the library portal of the Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes that disseminates Spanish-language literature.

The Library System of the University Eduardo Mondlane (SIBUEM) provides access to the online catalog (option acervo, catalogo electronico), an overview of electronic journals (option acervo, periodicos electronicos) and a searchable repository with dissertations (option repositorio saber>). Via biblioteca digital you can access the digital publications but first need to request a password/access code.

Provides access to a library of millions of books, an internet archive, six specialized libraries (arts, multimedia and audio-visual materials, the visually impaired, children, the young, rare books and special collections) and much more (museums, exhibitions, a planetarium, a culturama).

Provides free access to more than 50 e-books from or about Madagascar (fiction, travel literature, historical novels and issues of the Bulletin du Comité de Madagascar) from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a list of recent books on Madagascar.

Provides information about the National Library of Guinea.

The National Library of Tunisia’s website offers access to books, periodicals, manuscripts and maps and has information on its history, collections and cultural activities (in French and Arabic).

The National Library of Tunisia’s website offers access to books, periodicals, manuscripts and maps and has information on its history, collections and cultural activities (in French and Arabic).

The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) Axum Archive is comprised of images and slides from the excavations directed by Neville Chittick in northern Ethiopia from1972-74. These excavations focused primarily on Axum' s residential and burial sites. Chittick's work in Axum was cut short by the Derg Revolution that overthrew Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's the last emperor, in 1974.

The Engaruka Collection of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) includes photographs, drawings, and fieldwork notes from the numerous archaeological surveys conducted by the institute former Director, J. E. G. Sutton, and from the excavation undertaken in 1986 by Peter Robertshaw, the Assistant Director of the institute at the time.

The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) has been digitizing their collection of field notes and images from excavations at Kilwa Kisiwani in southern Tanzania. These excavations were carried out by Neville Chittick, the first Director of the BIEA, during the 1960s and early 1970s.

The BIEA Somalia Archive includes field notes, images and slides from an expedition directed by Neville Chittick between 1974 and 1984. His expedition covered Mogadishu and sites surrounding this large, historic city, as well as sites along the coast of Somalia.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 140 million documents from more than 6,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. The links in this portal for each country are queries for open access documents.

Tierno Bah’s blog about past and present issues in Guinea and some other African states.

BICC’s research and advisory work strives to reduce the potentially harmful effects accompanying any effort to organize violence in social relations. BICC’s activities can be subsumed in the following three thematic clusters, which are closely related to each other: Armament and arms control: Controlling arms and supporting disarmament; Dynamics of violent conflict: Preventing, transforming and ending violent conflict; Order and change: Understanding violence in social orders.

CSO is the principal data collecting, processing and disseminating agency responsible for coordinating, monitoring and supervising the National Statistical System. Its website provides full-text reports and datasets.