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

The images in this collection are from a survey conducted by the Getty Conservation Institute documenting different examples of earthen architecture at risk in North and West Africa, including Mali, Morocco, and Egypt.

The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. The EAC is an integral part of the African Economic Community.

The East African Development Bank (EADB) was established in 1967 with the remit to provide financial and other support to its member countries, which currently are Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda. Burundi has applied to become a member state.

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 20 territories constitute Eastern Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, Réunion, Mayotte, Mozambique and Madagascar, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan.

The Commission's Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) is responsible for designing European international cooperation and development policy and delivering aid throughout the world.

The European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) is an independent ‘think and do tank’ working on international cooperation and development policy in Europe and Africa. The ECDPM website allows searching webpages, publications, blogs, events and people by keywords. You may also want to have a look at the ECDPM dossiers: http://ecdpm.org/dossiers/

ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP. Its purpose is to build capacity worldwide by providing the most comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law. The ECOLEX database includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature. Users have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each document, as well as to the full text of most of the information provided.

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.

ECOWAS is a 15-member regional group with a mandate of promoting economic integration in all fields of activity of the constituting countries.

Wikipedia pages about education in African countries.

The HAQAA (Harmonisation of African Higher Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation) Initiative, funded by the European Union in partnership with the African Union, has been established to support the development of a harmonised quality assurance and accreditation system at institutional level, national, regional and Pan-African continental level. The Initiative is currently being implemented by a consortium consisting of the University of Barcelona (coordinator), the Association of African Universities (AAU), the European University Association (EUA), the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

An alphabetical list of Egyptian films.

Eldis supports free and open access to useful and relevant research on global development challenges.

In December 1978 Frits Eisenloeffel travelled to Namibia to report on the elections. The elections were organized by the South African government and intended to favor the DTA (Democratic Turnhalle Alliance), an organization, supported by South Africa, of black and white Namibians who were presenting themselves as 'non-violent', 'non-racial' and 'democratic' alternative of SWAPO. The photos show a rally of DTA supporters in Katura, a ghetto/outskirt of Windhoek , an African 'tribal chief' and black politicians of the DTA being protected by white security people, a protest march by supporters of SWAPO against elections in Namibia and the DTA, scenes at the polling station and a press conference by delegates of the South African administration. Part of The Frits Eissenloeffel online photo exhibition by the Dutch International Institute for Social History (IISG).

Provides (free) electronic documents on a specific country via Connecting-Africa, the gateway to Africana materials in repositories.

A directory of embassies worldwide.

ENACT works to mitigate the impact of transnational organised crime (TOC) in Africa on development, governance, security and the rule of law. The ENACT Organised Crime Index provides a multi-dimensional measure of organised crime and its impact.

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It is written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors, who have included 110 Nobel Prize winners and five American presidents.

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.

Creamers Media Engineering News brings news and backgrounds on economy, mining and industry.

The 2014 Environmental Performance Index is a joint project between the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP) and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University. The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) was born out of a recognition that environmental policymaking lacked scientific, quantitative rigor.

Explore the status and timelines of LGBT rights in each country, state, province, and region; same-sex marriage, adoption, serving openly in the military, discrimination protections, age of consent differences, blood donation restrictions, gender changing restrictions, and gay conversion therapy bans.

Blog dedicated to Afro-Hispanic studies which was set up by the Research Team Equatorial Guinea of the UNED. It includes a list of (online) publications and web resources.

Ethio Clips is a video-sharing site set up in 2006 that offers clips of Ethiopian music, videos, drama and comedy.

A blog on Ethiopian dramas and films.

The EEAS is the European Union's diplomatic service. It helps the EU's foreign affairs chief – the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy – carry out the Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy.

European Union trade partnerships with African countries and regions.

Princeton University historic maps of Africa, part of the 2014 exhibition "To the Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880".

Provides access to ASC staff with country-specific knowledge.

Provides access to 1350 Africa experts in Connecting-Africa.

Governments worldwide continue to reform their tax codes at a historically rapid rate. Taxpayers need a current guide, such as the Worldwide Corporate Tax Guide, in such a shifting tax landscape, especially if they are contemplating new markets. The content is straightforward. Chapter by chapter, from Albania to Zimbabwe, we summarize corporate tax systems in more than 150 jurisdictions.

A blog on politics, human rights and democracy in Togo.

The Fachinformationsdienst Romanistik (FID) has been operated jointly by the Bonn University and State Library and the Hamburg State and University Library since January 1, 2016. In addition to the acquisition of primary sources and research literature, the focus of the project funded by the DFG is the development of additional services to support scientists in the areas of literature research, research data management and open access publishing, among other things.

Fanack promotes the development and distribution of free information on salient issues concerning the Middle East and North Africa for a worldwide audience. All funded content is written from an Arab perspective by independent journalists and academics from the region, respectfully abiding by international law and the directives set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

AQUASTAT is FAO's global water information system, developed by the Land and Water Division. It is the most quoted source on global water statistics.

Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts – to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. An intergovernmental organization, FAO has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union.

The FAO Corporate Document RepositoryOpens external houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format. It includes publications dealing with food, food security, agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, and rural development. Please add search terms yourself (for example country name).

FAO Global Info and Early Warning System Country Briefs provide up to date information on the food security situation of monitored countries. The Country Briefs include information on the current agricultural season and the harvest prospects for the main staple food crops and livestock situation. In addition, the Briefs provide estimates and forecasts of cereal production and imports together with food price and policy developments.

The FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profiles provide a comprehensive overview of the fisheries and aquaculture sector for each country (or areas/territories recognized by the Organization and with important fishery sector).

FAOLEX is a database of national legislation, policies and bilateral agreements on food, agriculture and natural resources management. The FAO Legal Office also collaborates with other FAO and non-FAO initiatives by facilitating the integration of FAOLEX data into separate platforms or by the systematic exchange and linking of information.

FAOLEX is a database of national legislation, policies and bilateral agreements on food, agriculture and natural resources management. It is constantly being updated, with an average of 8,000 new entries per year. It currently contains legal and policy documents drawn from more than 200 countries, territories and regional economic integration organizations and originating in over 40 languages.

Statistical information from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization.

This Facebook magazine highlights various aspects about films in Kenya.

Angolan private weekly.

JusticeInfo.net is an independent media platform of Fondation Hirondelle, together with academic partners Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). JusticeInfo.net provides news and analysis of justice developments in transition societies, such as the work of Truth Commissions, tribunals investigating serious human rights abuses, peace and reconciliation processes.

As a central component of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) “World Food Crisis” project , this open access policy information portal has been established to provide comprehensive and detailed information country-by-country on food policy developments.

The Forest Atlases are online platforms that help countries better manage their forest resources by combining government data with the latest forest monitoring technology. The Forest Atlases include interactive mapping and database tools that forest managers can use to visualize, analyze and download data to make better-informed decisions.

This index (formerly the Failed States Index), created by The Fund for Peace, has put countries into perspective by providing an annual snapshot of their vitality and stability (or lack thereof) and ranking them accordingly.

A list of free, Africa-related journals, provided by the ASCL Library.