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The history of COMESA began in December 1994 when it was formed to replace the former Preferential Trade Area (PTA) which had existed from the earlier days of 1981. COMESA (as defined by its Treaty) was established ‘as an organisation of free independent sovereign states which have agreed to co-operate in developing their natural and human resources for the good of all their people’ and as such it has a wide-ranging series of objectives which necessarily include in its priorities the promotion of peace and security in the region. However, due to COMESA’s economic history and background its main focus is on the formation of a large economic and trading unit that is capable of overcoming some of the barriers that are faced by individual states.

The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 52 independent and equal sovereign states. The Commonwealth is home to 2.4 billion people and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. Thirty of the members are small states, many of which are island nations.

The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Competitive Industrial Performance Index (CIP) country profiles (PDF). Website: http://stat.unido.org/cip/

The Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) works closely with the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC), the regional body responsible for the orientation and harmonization of forest and environmental policies, in the interest of promoting the conservation and sustainable management of the forest ecosystems of the Congo Basin.

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.

DRC news site.

The Congo Reform Association was first formed in 1904 by Edmund D. Morel. Morel was a human rights activist and passionate force against Leopold II of Belgium who enslaved the entire Congo region for the rubber and ivory trades. The Congo Reform Association partners with like-minded organizations committed to ending genocide in the Eastern Congo to bring peace and stability to the entire Central Africa region.

Congo Research Group (CRG) is an independent, non-profit research project dedicated to understanding the violence that affects millions of Congolese. We are based at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

Information about DRC and the relationship between DRC and Begium, their people, provinces and communities. The website is maintained by volunteers.

Provides information about Guinea’s history and tourist information and also has parts of Ethnomethodologie et Conduite de Projets Informatiques by Omar Touré who maintains the website (in French).

‘Connecting in Times of Duress: Understanding communication and conflict in Middle Africa’s mobile margins’ (2012-2017) is an NWO-funded research project at the University of Leiden, aimed at understanding the dynamics in the relationship between enduring conflict, hardship, governance regimes, mobility, migration and connectivity.

En vue de gérer les problématiques d’Enseignement supérieur et de Recherche scientifique des pays membres, le CAMES a pour missions plus spécifiques de: Promouvoir et favoriser la compréhension et la solidarité entre les États membres; Instaurer une coopération culturelle et scientifique permanente entre les États membres; Rassembler et diffuser tous documents universitaires ou de recherche: thèses, statistiques, informations sur les examens, annuaires, annales, palmarès, information sur les offres et demandes d’emploi de toutes origines; Préparer les projets de conventions entre les États concernés dans les domaines de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et contribuer à l’application de ces conventions; Concevoir et promouvoir la concertation en vue de coordonner les systèmes d’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche afin d’harmoniser les programmes et les niveaux de recrutement dans les différents établissements d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche, favoriser la coopération entre les différentes institutions, ainsi que des échanges d’informations.

A database with references and links to constitutional documents, from the University of Konstanz.

Provides access to freely downloadable material such as spiritual songs, hymns, holy liturgies, sermons, midnight praises. Compiled by St. Takla Haymanout Coptic Orthodox Church.

Corona Thornycroft spent much of her life finding and recording rock painting sites throughout central Zimbabwe, particularly in the Wedza and Marondera areas, near where she lived.

The website of the Council for Non-Governmental Organisations in Malawi (CONGOMA) that is the legal coordinating body for NGOs in Malawi.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is the foremost national science and technology institution in Ghana. It is mandated to carry out scientific and technological research for national development.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

The sources, part of the database Refwold, cover the human rights situation in a particular country of origin.

Is a media file repository that offers public-domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips).

In 2016 professor Roel Coutinho (on Dutch wikipedia) MD donated 752 photographs and slides made by him in the course of his medical work in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal in 1973 and 1974, during the final year of the war of independence waged by the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) resistance movement against Portugal. The digital images are located in Category:Guinea-Bissau and Senegal 1973-1974 (Coutinho Collection). The physical collection is part of the Library of the African Studies Centre, Leiden (the Netherlands).

Legacy website of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

The Crisis Tracker is a geospatial database and reporting project that tracks armed group activity and conflict-related incidents in the remote region encompassing Haut Mbomou, Mbomou, and Haute Kotto prefectures in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Bas Uele and Haut Uele provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Crisis24 Security risk management country reports (private company).

The main part of this site hosts a lot of photo albums created by different private persons. You can find a lot of old historical pictures, postcards or also stamps. Furthermore there is link to the online edition of 'La Guinea Española' (no.1, 1903 - no. 1629, 1968) as well as poems on Equatorial Guinea or written by Equatorial Guineans.

The cultural goods depicted in the PDF documents are inventoried objects within the collections of recognised institutions. They serve to illustrate the categories of cultural goods most vulnerable to illicit traffic.

DataReportal is designed to help people and organisations all over the world to find the data, insights, and trends they need to make more informed decisions.

The David Coulson Africa Heritage Collection represents several decades of photographic documentation beginning in the 1980s. Featured in this collection are images capturing the cultural heritage of various sites, including the ritual art of the Stone Churches of Lalibela and various ruins in Niger and coastal Kenya, and ritual and everyday social practices within these contexts, including everyday life in the Kalahari Desert, a major Rock Art landscape.

Fiscal information about African countries from Deloitte (PDF).

Articles on Wikipedia about the demographics of African countries.

The Development Data Hub is the most comprehensive online resource for financial and resource flow data alongside poverty, social and vulnerability indicators. It combines an extensive data store with interactive visualisations enabling you to chart, map and compare data at the global, national and local level.

"Devex is the world’s leading independent news organization covering global development. Devex delivers insider reporting that drives the global development agenda. Our members are global development professionals and everyone working for a better world. We report from the front lines of the fight to achieve the SDGs – driving the most important debates, providing the most critical analysis, and backing it all up with the events, career information, and funding opportunities professionals require."

This is the official site of the office of national statistics in Togo and includes full-text reports.

Die Son (Afrikaans: "The Sun") is an Afrikaans-language South African tabloid reporting sensational news essentially after the model of British tabloids. It is the South African newspaper with the largest increase in readership in recent years.

Online atlas with maps showing Namibia’s climate, physical geography, natural resources, history, people, services and infrastructure.

This digital publication is part of a Llarec project to digitise, research and publish the Bleek and Lloyd Archive. The Digital Bleek and Lloyd includes scans of every page of the 110 Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks, 17 Lloyd (mostly) !kun notebooks and 28 Wilhelm Bleek |xam notebooks.

The Digital Namibian Archive (DNA) is an innovative project that brings together international partners to develop a rich digital resource that reflects the diversity of voices and cultural stories of Namibian people to individuals throughout the United States, Africa and the world.

A guest post by Marilyn Deegan (Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London) on Simon Tanner's blog 'When the data hits the fan!' about the Digital Sudan project, and about their visit to a number of Sudanese archives and libraries.

News and internet radio from DR Congo.

The website of Morocco’s National Statistical Office.

The website of Benin’s National Archives provides 170 original historical documents and photographs (1893-1937) related to slavery, the slave trade and colonialism in Benin (in French).

Displacement.iom.int is an IOM online platform designed to enhance access to Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) information products on internal displacement, including a visualization of the scale of displacement monitored by IOM. Click All Reports for reports by region and country.

The Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa digital library contains archival and research materials that explore Islamic practices in the West African countries of Senegal and Ghana. An African Online Digital Library (AODL) collection (Michigan State University (MSU)).

Provides information about the musical styles, techniques and sounds of Djibouti.

A website with photos from the book "Dogon Images and Traditions" by Huib Blom.

Doxandem Squad is an international association of graffiti artists who promote graffiti art and urban culture in Senegal and internationally in different artistic forms.

Provides information about law, power and peace in Burundi and is subdivised into the categories  constitution, human rights, elections,  ethnicity, government, transitional justice, peace, political parties (mostly in French). Compiled by the Institute of Development, Policy and Management (IOB), University of Antwerp.

Business law and information on taxation in francophone Africa including texts of laws. Kept up to date and selected by specialist lawyers. (In French.)

The information represented in the dashboard below comes from the eleven countries utilizing the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) system whose data is available on the HDX platform. The map and chart are live-updating, and so as new data is added to the platform, the visuals will update to accurately reflect internal displacement in the countries.

Information from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs about development cooperation.