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Official website of the Prime Minister of Madagascar (in French).

Official website of the Presidency of Madagascar (in French).

Official Facebook page of the government of Malawi.

Official portal of the government of Liberia, maintained by the Ministry of Information.

Official portal of the Governnent of Lesotho.

MyGov.go.ke offers information for Kenyan citizens about the government of Kenya under the title 'Know your government'.

The Presidency - official website of the President of Kenya.

Information guide about Kenya.

Offical website of the government of Guinea-Bissau (in Portuguese).

Official website of the Prsidency of Guinea (in French).

The official web portal of the Gabonese Republic.

Website of the Egyptian House of Representatives (in Arabic).

The website of the Ministry of Information of Eritrea.

Official Web Page of the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

This site displays the Egyptian government services that have been restructured and automated in a congregated and direct way that helps the navigator to find the government service that he/she is looking for easily. Offers directories of Ministries and Governates.

UNOWAS has the responsibility for preventive diplomacy, good offices and political mediation and facilitation efforts in West Africa and the Sahel. UNOWAS also works to consolidate peace and democratic governance in countries emerging from conflict or political crises.

The United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) was officially launched on 2 March 2011 in Libreville, Gabon. It is mandated to assist Member States and Sub-regional organizations in consolidating peace and preventing potential conflicts.

The African Union (AU) was founded in 1999 with the goal of accelerating the process of integration in the continent, to enable it play its rightful role in the global economy while addressing multifaceted social, economic and political problems compounded as they are by certain negative aspects of globalisation.

The Economic Community of Central African States counts eleven member states. The goal of the organization is to promote and reinforce an harmonic cooperation and a balanced and self-sustaining development in the areas of economic and social activity. Website in French.

Global Witness is an independent, investigative NGO, campaigning to end environmental and human rights abuses, driven by the exploitation of natural resources and corruption in the global political and economic system.

IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. The IMDb consumer site (www.imdb.com) is the #1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors. IMDb 'movies by country' offers lists and other information about titles produced or co-produced by that country.

World Population Review's goal is to make this data more accessible through graphs, charts, analysis and visualizations.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, exclusion from healthcare and natural disasters. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) provides more emergency medical care in Democratic Republic of Congo than in any other country in the world.

Recordings from one of the pioneers of African music studies. Reverend Arthur Morris Jones was a missionary based in Zambia from 1923 until the early 1950s. He is considered one of the pioneers of African music studies. The collection is varied in terms of the number of cultures and countries it covers as Jones set about his exploration of some overarching areas of research: African hymnody, African rhythm and multipart structures, and African xylophones.

These recordings are from the Radio Télévision Guinée archives, created in the Republic of Guinea under the Presidency of Sékou Touré (1958-1984) following independence from France.

A collection of field recordings made by ethnomusicologist Trevor Wiggins during research in Ghana during the 1990s. Recordings focus mainly on Dagaare recreational songs and dances from Nandom in northwestern Ghana and highlight xylophone or "gyil" music, as well as various other instrumental and vocal music.

A South African-born linguist and musicologist, Rycroft made many field trips to villages, townships and settlements around South Africa between the 60s and 80s. Fascinated by the relationship between oral traditions and musical structure, Rycroft focussed on unaccompanied choral singing, songs composed for indigenous musical instruments, and urban music.

A collection of field recordings made by composer Kevin Volans in the late 1970s in Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The recordings include rare recordings of the late Princess Constance Magogo on the ugubhu musical bow, as well as a large number of guitar and concertina pieces. The collection also includes natural sounds such as the sounds of storms and a range of insects.

Nearly 1,500 recordings made by ethnomusicologist, Peter Cooke, between 1964 and 1997 and covering a broad range of culture groups, genres and instrument types.

The late Kenneth A Gourlay, British ethnomusicologist, is known principally for his work among the Karamojong of Northeast Uganda. His collection of field recordings, made during the 1960s, features a range of genres including a large number of 'ox-songs'.

Nearly 20 hours of Jola music recorded in January and February 1982 in The Gambia and Senegal by British composer, Giles Swayne, much of whose work is often directly or indirectly linked to his knowledge and experiences of African music.

John Brearley’s collection is an ongoing work that began with his first trip to Botswana in July 1982 to investigate and record traditional music, and to observe to what extent the influence of radio and recorded music had interrupted the use of traditional instruments.

Hans-Joachim Heinz, was an anthropologist, who from 1961 worked amongst the !Ko Bushmen (San) of the Kalahari. The recordings include vocal solos and duets, healing songs, musical games, and a range of instruments including musical bows and other stringed instruments and lamellaphones.

The songs in this collection were recorded for a project conducted between 2009 and 2012 by researchers from the University of Edinburgh and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in collaboration with Dinka researchers in South Sudan.

Recordings in this collection can be played by anyone. The Decca West Africa yellow label series, issued on shellac disc between circa 1948-1958, provides a major resource for the study of contemporary African music. The majority of the recordings emanate from Ghana.

Portraits of Saharawi Music is the result of six months of ethnographic fieldwork in Saharawi refugee camps, in south-west Algeria, during 2013 and 2014. The collection includes a variety of music recordings with the aim of showcasing the rich cultural heritage of the Saharawi community living in exile since 1975, when they were forced out of their homeland, Western Sahara. Known as Africa's last colony, the Saharawi’s land is to this day still occupied by Morocco and pending decolonisation.

The "foremost pioneering scholar in African music", Wachsmann made roughly 1,500 unique recordings of indigenous music in Uganda, most of which have never been published before. This collection dates from the late 1940s, when Wachsmann was curator of the Uganda Museum in Kampala, and includes field recordings and performances at the Museum.

The British Library has catalogued, conserved and digitised over 550 military intelligence maps and associated documents from the War Office Archive relating to the former British East Africa (modern-day Kenya, Uganda and adjacent parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia).

The African Union/UN Hybrid operation in Darfur, referred to by its acronym UNAMID, was established on 31 July 2007 with the adoption of Security Council resolution 1769.

The Security Council, by its resolution 1990 PDF Document of 27 June 2011, responded to the urgent situation in Sudan’s Abyei region by establishing the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). The Security Council was deeply concerned by the violence, escalating tensions and population displacement.

On 9 July 2011 South Sudan became the newest country in the world. The birth of the Republic of South Sudan is the culmination of a six-year peace process which began with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005.

MONUSCO took over from an earlier UN peacekeeping operation – the United Nations Organization Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) – on 1 July 2010. It was done in accordance with Security Council resolution 1925 PDF Document of 28 May to reflect the new phase reached in the country.

Concerned with the security, humanitarian, human rights and political crisis in the Central African Republic and its regional implications, the Security Council authorized on 10 April 2014 deployment of a multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operation – MINUSCA, with the protection of civilians as its utmost priority.

The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) was established by Security Council resolution 1509 (2003) PDF Document of 19 September 2003 to support the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the peace process; protect United Nations staff, facilities and civilians; support humanitarian and human rights activities; as well as assist in national security reform, including national police training and formation of a new, restructured military.

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was established by Security Council resolution 2100 of 25 April 2013 to support political processes in that country and carry out a number of security-related tasks. The Mission was asked to support the transitional authorities of Mali in the stabilization of the country and implementation of the transitional roadmap.

The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) was established by Security Council resolution 690 PDF Document of 29 April 1991 in accordance with settlement proposals accepted on 30 August 1988 by Morocco and the Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el-Hamra y de Río de Oro (Frente POLISARIO).

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.

Books, maps, images, archived web pages and many other items in the Library of Congress collections, sorted by location.

Official website of the Cabinet of the First Minster of DR Congo (in French).

The Library of Congress prints & photographs online catalog.