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Recent news on politics, economics and Chadian society (in French).

The official website of the presidency in Chad (in French and Arabic).

Provides resources and links to full texts and other sites on Chadic languages, including a link for browsing and a Who's Who of researchers.

A comprehensive, open-access bibliography containing more than 2500 entries compiled by Prof.Paul Newman from Indiana University.

Demographic and socio-economic statistics from Chad (in French).

Offers information about the National Library, the National Bibliography and the Legal Deposit of Mauritania (in French).

The national news from Mauritania (in French and Arabic).

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

Full-text document on the history of Mauritania by Prof. Hamahou Allah Ould Salem at the University of Nouakchott.

Recent news from Mauritania (in French).

Provides information on instruments, types of music and artists.

Socio-economic statistics from Mauritania including  information on news and publications (in French).

An online bilingual database with over 20,000 records from seven West African collections, including the manuscript libraries of the Institut Mauritanien de Recherche Scientifique, Northwestern University and the Centre Ahmad Baba in Timbuktu.

Offers information about the National Library, the Legal Deposit of Liberia and their services.

The database presents 50.000 digitized historical pictures covering the whole of Africa. It includes the pictures of the Sam Cohen Library in Namibia.

Has information about the National Bibliography, the National Archives and the Legal Deposit of Niger (in French).

Weekly news from Niger (in French).

Music magazine from Niger ( in French).

Has information on the presidency in Niger (in French).

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

The LASDEL (Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local) website focuses on the social sciences in Niger and Benin (in French).

Gives information about theGerman explorer Barth and his journey through West Africa (Niger) with films, videos and pictures about places he visited, Compiled by Julia Winckler from the Heinrich-Barth-Society and the University in Brighton.

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.

This UCLA website has information on the Hausa language and culture and provides links to other sites with similar information.

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

Socio-economic statistics from Niger (French language website).

The latest news from Niger.

Offers information about the National Library, the National Bibliography and the Legal Deposit of Burkina Faso (in French).

Provides information on national, popular and traditional music.

Provides information about the history of the cinema, the FESPACO festival and feature films from Burkina Faso.

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

The latest news from Burkina Faso (in French).

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

Thomas Sankara, a former leader of Burkina Faso (1983-1987) with books, films, speeches, interviews and articles (in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian).

Socio-economic statistics from Burkina Faso including information on news and publications (in French).

Compiled by John Rennison (University of Vienna).

The French Institute of Madagascar (IFM) provides information on exhibitions, concerts, conferences, lectures, live performances, literary forums, workshops, panel discussions and festivals, and also has a library with an online catalogue (in French).

Madagascar’s National Archives have over 30,000 books on the country’s history.

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

This database, maintained by the library of the University of Antanavario and 13 other partners, has information and details of books on Madagascar.

Recent news from Madagascar (in French).

The latest news from Madagascar (in French).

Offers an extensive Malagasy dictionary with English and French translations (also a few in Italian and German) with a search function and information on dialects, history, geography, zoology, proverbs and abbreviations.

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 on traditional and contemporary Malagasy music, instruments and artists.

A bibliography of Malagasy language and linguistics compiled by Oxford University’s Charles Randriamasimanana (1943-2007).

Social and economic statistics on Madagascar (in French).

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

List of Tunisian movies with trailers and additional information.

The National Heritage Institute’s website has information and photos showing the cultural heritage of Tunisia including museums, exhibitions, sites, archaeological maps, calligraphy and a bibliography (in French, English and Arabic).