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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.

Privately owned Botswana weekly.

Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) is a non-governmental research organization working on development policy analysis and capacity building. Its website provides access to its library catalogue and BIDPA publications.

The Bradshaw Foundation is a non-profit organization which provides an online learning resource. Its main areas of focus are archaeology, anthropology and genetic research, and its primary objective is to discover, document and preserve ancient rock art around the world, and promote the study of early humankind’s artistic achievements.

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level. Brookings brings together more than 300 leading experts in government and academia from all over the world who provide the highest quality research, policy recommendations, and analysis on a full range of public policy issues. The research agenda and recommendations of Brookings’s experts are rooted in open-minded inquiry and our 300+ scholars represent diverse points of view. Research topics cover foreign policy, economics, development, governance and metropolitan policy.

The official site of the National Assembly in Burundi, including its Constitution (in French).

State-owned daily.

This (incomplete) catalogue of the Cameroon National Archives at DePaul University Chicago includes digitized archive materials.

The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada - National Documentation Packages (NDP) are lists of public documents that provide information on country conditions. Updates occur on a regular basis. The NDP support the refugee determination process. They do not imply recognition of a particular territory's sovereignty or political status.

The website of the overseas research centre of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) in Tunis has a specialized library on the Maghrib and the Middle East (mostly in English) and organizes lectures, roundtables and conferences on regional issues.

CDD Ghana is are an independent, non partisan and, nonprofit organization based in Accra, Ghana. The CDD-Ghana is dedicated to the promotion of society and government based on the rule of law, appropriate checks on the power of the state, and integrity in public administration. Program areas include Local Government Decentralization, Elections Credibility Enhancement, Human Rights Promotion, Constitutional Development, Environmental/Natural Resource Governance, and Governmental Transparency and Accountability

The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) is one of Liberia’s leading media development organizations. The Center was legally established on October 24, 2003 in response to the challenges confronting professional media practice and free speech as a result of years of conflict in Liberia.

Established in Washington, D.C., over 50 years ago, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to providing strategic insights and policy solutions to help decisionmakers chart a course toward a better world.

Extensive information about the Central African Republic with documents partly written by the author himself.

Online newspaper with daily news form the CAR.

Central Africa is the core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda. Middle Africa (as used by the United Nations when categorising geographic subregions) is an analogous term that includes Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

The Central Africa Forest Observatory (OFAC) was created in 2007 as a specialised unit of the Central African Forests Commission (Commission des forêts d'Afrique centrale COMIFAC) to provide the up-to-date, relevant data on the region’s forests and ecosystems that is needed for policy-making and to promote better governance and sustainable management of natural resources. OFAC is supported by the EU-funded RIOFAC project.

Provides statistical data, information and reports with a focus on population, trade, education, culture, transport services. agriculture, finance and industry.

The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) is an international public institution with headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. It is the common issuing institution of the member States of the West African Monetary Union (WAMU). Currently, there are eight (08) member States in the Monetary Union: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.

Presents Namibia’s official statistics, full-text reports and datasets.

<p>Offers statistical information from Ethiopia’s consumer price database, the Ethiopian National Data Archive (ENADA), its indicator database and more.</p>

Provides analysis of official data on economic and social indicators.

The Centre for Humanitarian Data is focused on increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector. It is managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The Centre’s services are available to humanitarian partners and OCHA staff in the field and at Headquarters free of charge. The website offers data visualizations, impact stories, slideshows and more.

The National Center for Documentation and Scientific Research’s website with information about the National Library, the National Archives, the National Museum and research programmes in history and anthropology.

Provides statistical information and reports on economic and social issues in Congo Brazzaville (in French).

CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) is a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research for a food-secured future. GARDIAN, the Global Agricultural Research Data Innovation & Acceleration Network, is the CGIAR flagship data harvester. GARDIAN enables the discovery of publications and datasets from the thirty-odd institutional publications and data repositories across all CGIAR Centers to enable value addition and innovation via data reuse.

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.

Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI): enterprises and associations represent Malawi’s different economic sectors and its website offers publications that can be downloaded.

Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute based in London.

Provides detailed information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, defence, and transnational issues of different countries.

Provides detailed information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, defence, and transnational issues of different countries.

Privately owned news site by CITI FM Radio.

City Press is a South African English-language Sunday newspaper, published in Johannesburg, Gauteng. It was previously aimed at black readers, and is a former top-10 selling newspaper in South Africa.

The CIVICUS Monitor is a research tool that provides close to real-time data on the state of civil society and civic freedoms in 196 countries. The data is generated through a collaboration with more than 20 civil society research partners, and input from a number of independent human rights evaluations.

CAIT, a climate data explorer by the World Resources Institute, provides free access to comprehensive, reliable, and comparable greenhouse gas emissions data sets, as well as other climate-relevant indicators, to enable analysis on a wide range of climate-related data questions.

The Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) Beta is a central hub of information, data and reports about climate change around the world. Here you can query, map, compare, chart and summarize key climate and climate-related information. Provided by the World Bank Group.

The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) is an intergovernmental organisation that provides a platform for peer learning and exchange for African ministries of finance, budget and planning. The Budgets in Africa section provides up-to-date and regular information on African national budgets. Here you will be able to access publicly available budget documentation for African countries, since 2010.

An overview of Africa maps, by Columbia University Libraries, African Studies resources.

Information and resources, composed by the Columbia University Libraries.

Data dashboards on Economy, Energy, Demographics etc. for the COMESA member countries.

Website of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa,

The African Charter established the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. In addition to performing any other tasks which may be entrusted to it by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, the Commission is officially charged with three major functions: the protection of human and peoples' rights; the promotion of human and peoples' rights; the interpretation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

The CCBG consists of 15 Governors from the SADC (Southern African Development Community) central banks. The CCBG deals with the development of financial institutions and markets, co‑operation regarding international and regional financial relations, and monetary, investment and foreign exchange policies.

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a free trade area with twenty member states stretching from Libya to Swaziland. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981.