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South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy presents first-hand accounts of anti-aparthied movement. Interviews with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original narratives tell this remarkable story. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) / Michigan State University (MSU) website.

Official website of the Government of Cape Verde (in Portuguese).

Official website of the Parliament of Ghana.

Provides access to the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection and includes a collection of online CIA and historical maps.

Peter Mackay (1926-2013) was a key figure in the independence movements of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (Malawi). This University of Stirling archive contains a comprehensive record of Mackay's journalism, political activism, travel, photography and charitable work.

The Lamu Island Collection of the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) includes photographs taken by David Coulson. These images depict Swahili life and culture, a culture which has been evolving since the 7th century, AD. Lamu, one of Kenya's original Swahili settlements, is located in the Lamu Archipelago, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The "Photographic and Descriptive Albums of the Colony of Mozambique" were elaborated by José dos Santos Rufino in 1929. The author tries, through a collection of 10 albums, to show the various aspects of the "Colônia de Moçambique". Most of these photographs were used in the General Bulletin of Colonies No. 50 , 1929, dedicated to the Colony of Mozambique (website in Portuguese).

Information about the life and expeditions of the French explorer Paul Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), with original documents, photos and audio files (in English, French and Italian).

Pluralism and Adaptation in the Islamic Practice of Senegal and Ghana is a digital library of multi-media resources that demonstrate how innovative Africans have been in the history of Islam and Islamic practice and how they continue to live and experience Islam. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

Police and demonstrators have clashed in the DRC in the latest round of violence sparked by an ongoing political crisis in the troubled central African state. President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled since 2001, is banned under the constitution from running again but has given no inclination he will stand down in December.

Focuses on (breaking) news and politics in Southern Africa. Provides informed comment and opinion, easy access to key online resources and a forum for reasoned debate. It welcomes comments and contributions.

The Population Reference Bureau (USA) analyzes demographic data and research to provide objective, accurate, and up-to-date population information in accessible formats.

Official website of the government of Côte d'Ivoire (in French).

The official site of the government of Gabon.

Tunisian government information and links to ministries (in French and Arabic).

This official government website provides links to Niger’s ministries (in French).

Official portal of the government of Mali (in French).

Official portal of the government of Mozambique (in Portuguese).

Photos by Reuters photographer Finbarr O'Reilly, on The Boston Big Picture (2009).

Has information about postage stamps and Libya’s postal history, with links to the Davies Collection of Libyan stamps from 1955 to 1969, the postage stamps and the postal history of Tripolitania (now part of Libya) and revenue stamps.

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

An official government website with news and information about Burkina Faso’s president, its constitution and events (in French).

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

Official website of the Presidency of the Republic of Niger.

News items from different Togolese journals and newspapers.

Recognised internationally for excellence in human rights law in Africa, the University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights is uniquely positioned as both an academic department and a non-governmental organisation. A leader in human rights education in Africa, the Centre works towards a greater awareness of human rights, the wide dissemination of publications on human rights in Africa, and the improvement of the rights of women, people living with HIV, indigenous peoples, sexual minorities and other disadvantaged or marginalised persons or groups across the continent.

PreventionWeb is a collaborative knowledge sharing platform on disaster risk reduction (DRR), managed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). The site offers a range of knowledge products and services to facilitate the work of DRR professionals.

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

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

Provides information about Prof. Abdoulaye’s research (including the full text of his articles and presentations, his educational material and lists of theses) at the African Studies Institute in Leipzig, Germany, where he taught Hausa from 1995-2000.

The use of public-private partnerships to design, build and deliver infrastructure worldwide has grown significantly in the past decade. Yet the availability of reliable information to help governments and advisors design and deliver projects well, has lagged behind. The PPP Knowledge Lab brings together the most relevant and authoritative resources on public-private partnerships in one location to empower governments and their advisors to design and deliver best in class infrastructure projects.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Worldwide Tax Summaries provides information on corporate and individual taxes in over 150 territories worldwide.

The Qadiri community of Shaykh Buh Kunta originated in 1883 when Abu (“Buh”) Muhammed ben Abu Naama Kunta, a descendant of the prestigious Kunta family, established himself in Ndiassane, Senegal, with a small group of followers. This gallery presents audio interviews with Kunta family members and followers, images, and documents (including newspaper articles) to illuminate the history and contemporary dynamics of this Qadiri community. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

UN-backed radio station and news site.

The World Trade Organisation RTA database provides information about participation in Regional Trade Agreements.

Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) is a membership-based association of Vice-Chancellors of public and private universities in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). SARUA enables collaborative partnerships that develop the institutional and human capacity of the Southern African region’s universities and contributes to regional collaboration for the public good within higher education. SARUA is the regional convenor of choice and connecting hub for SADC’s universities multiple stakeholder interests.

Provides the current travel advice of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Dutch).

Founded by four journalists in the southern French city Montpellier in 1985, RSF is now one of the world’s leading NGOs in the defense and promotion of freedom of information.

Links to government institutions, activities and latest decrees (in French).

Provides information on Algeria’s presidency, government institutions and the country in general (in Arabic and French).

An official government website with news and information about Benin’s constitution and government and its president (in French).

Resource Watch features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens. Users can visualize challenges facing people and the planet, from climate change to poverty, water risk to state instability, air pollution to human migration, and more.

Thomson Reuters is a leading news and information provider. Their philantropic arm is the Thomson Reuters Foundation (http://www.trust.org), providing humanitarian news.

Provides information from journals, press agencies and individual authors on Ivory Coast.

Robben Island, the unique symbol of “the triumph of the human spirit over adversity, suffering and injustice” with a rich 500 year old multi-layered history, is visited every year by thousands of people eager to understand and honour the important aspects of South Africa’s history that the Island represents.

The Getty Conservation Institute, a program of The J. Paul Getty Trust, and the West African Republic of Benin's Department of Cultural Patrimony worked together during the mid-1990's to conserve fifty seriously damaged bas-relief panels that once adorned the Salle des Bijoux (Hall of Jewels) in the Historic Museum at the Royal Palaces of Abomey, a World Heritage Site.

The RMCA (Belgium) has extremely varied collections that are of major scientific value. Most pieces were compiled before the independence of Congo, but the collections continue to grow thanks to scientific expeditions, purchases and donations. In the sections of natural sciences, each department manages its own collection. For the human sciences, the Collection Management coordinating department was established in 2006.

The online catalogue of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.

The Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts project (RULAC) of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights is a unique online portal that identifies and classifies situations of armed conflict, provides information on the parties to these conflicts, and applicable international law. It aims to provide an independent and impartial classification of situations of armed conflict in the world based on open source information in a format that is accessible to a wide audience, including non-lawyers and non-specialists in international humanitarian law.

The main areas of work of the CHE are to: provide advice to the Minister of Higher Education and Training on all higher education matters on request, and proactively; promote a system of quality assurance for all higher education institutions, including private providers of higher education, which focuses on programme accreditation, institutional audits, national reviews, standards development, quality promotion and capacity development; monitor the state of higher education and publish information regarding developments in higher education on a regular basis; and contribute to the development of higher education through intellectual engagement with key issues in a number of activities in partnership with relevant stakeholders.