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Approx. 2500 items on Rwanda and Burundi with illustrations and maps, Ruanda-Urundi, Kivu and Oriental provinces and the Belgian Congo. An online guide to the collection was compiled by George A. Smathers Libraries.

The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection is a private collection created in 1989 by Italian business man Jean Pigozzi. It includes several thousand artworks featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, installations and videos from contemporary artists living in 22 sub-Saharan African countries.

Pan-African news site in French.

The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) has reported country, regional and global estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) since 1990. The JMP maintains an extensive global database and has become the leading source of comparable estimates of progress at national, regional and global levels.

The Joint Oil Data Exercise (JODI) oil and gas databases provide transparancy in oil and gas market data.

Official journal of the Republic of Djibouti with published government decrees, orders and laws. Has a search function that allows one to restrict the search by type of legal resources, subject or year (in French).

JSTOR Open Content provides thousands of free journal articles and open access book chapters.

The objective of this a database of case law in French, is to allow magistrates and legal professionals (lawyers, notaries, bailiffs, jurists) to have free access to the decisions of the supreme courts. The database currently includes nearly 800,000 judgments from forty countries.

Gives information about the San and includes links to other sites and full-text documents.

Compilation of materials from the social sciences and humanities consisting of four sections: Reviews, Bibliography, Statistics and Open-Access Publications. This Portal is a service provided by the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) for students, researchers, development workers, government officials and others with an interest in the region.

This website of the National Council for Law Reporting gives access to judgments, rulings and opinions of the superior courts of record, and to the laws of Kenya.

Offers digital access to guides to the Kenya  National Archives that are available largely on microfilm. Compiled by the Syracuse University Libraries, New York.

The Kenya National Archives collaborated with Google Arts & Culture in presenting their archives online. Google Arts & Culture also holds other African collections.

Provides statistical data on the agriculture, building, construction and housing, education and energy sectors and on the national Accounts, public finance, labour and employment, industry, international trade and the balance of payments, tourism, and population and demography.

Provides a collection of publications that are published in or related to Kenya.

This government open data portal provides information about census data, government expenditure, parliamentary proceedings and public-service locations.

List of Kenyan films by genre such as drama, comedy, romance-sci-fi, crime, documentary, horror and thriller.

Offers bibliographic information on theses and dissertations from 1900 to 1998 based on research carried out on or in Kenya.

This documentary honors Alice Seeley Harris, one of the first people to use photography as a vehicle for a human rights campaign in Congo, as an unsung hero.

This directory of NGOs and human-rights, civil-society and health-sector organizations in Zimbabwe (by category and name) is maintained by the Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe. It also has a database of articles on HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe and gives details of the NGO Network Alliance Project (NNAP).

The Indiana University collection of photographs of Kumasi Central Market (Ghana), one of the largest marketplaces in West Africa. The images show retail and wholesale areas, street scenes, special events, portraits of traders and their home life in this and other related trading sites in Kumasi and throughout Ghana. Black and white photos by Gracia Clark during ethnographic fieldwork 1978-80. Color images from slides by Gracia Clark and Carmen Paz, date from 1979 to 2006.

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Privately owned Benin daily.

Privately owned Burkiona Faso news site.

The latest news from Djibouti (in French).

Latest news from Tunisia (in French).

Learn about the land governance context in various countries. Besides a comprehensive description, you will find links to publications, news, blogs and more related resources. The country portfolios are developed by a team of researchers and peer-reviewed by highly experienced land specialists in each country.

LANDac, the Netherlands Land Academy, is a partnership between Dutch organisations and their Southern partners working on land governance for equitable and sustainable development. LANDac was formed in 2010 as one of the IS Academies, a series of five-year programs designed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strengthen the role of knowledge and research in sustainable development, poverty alleviation and international cooperation. The fact sheets were originally compiled in 2012, and have been updated in 2015/2016.

'Landscapes of West Africa, A Window on a Changing World' presents a vivid picture of the changing natural environment of West Africa. By U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.

Languageofpeace.org is a website from United Nations Peacemake, developed and maintained in cooperation with Cambridge University. Languageofpeace.org is an innovative tool to search provisions of Peace Agreements. Designed to meet the needs of mediators, drafters, conflict parties and other stakeholders, it provides easy access to compare and collate language on key issues across 75,000+ provisions of around 1,000 peace agreements.

Bibliographies for each language spoken in Zambia.

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).

An introduction to Benin’s literature between 1980 and 1999 with information on authors, subjects and a bibliography (in French).

The latest news from Niger.

The latest news from Burkina Faso (in French).

Provides information (in French) about Dakar, the Senegalese economy, ethnic groups, national parks, history, religion and much more.

DRC daily and news site.

Offers a critical interpretation and didactic presentation of Togolese colonial photographs by Kokou Azamede.

A public interest law centre, striving to make the law accessible to those with the least access through education, law reform, research, litigation, legal advice, representation and lobbying and the ultimate aim of creating and maintaining a human rights culture in Namibia. The centre publishes legal information. A lot of its publications are available free of charge on the centre's website.

Recent news from Mauritius (in French).

Provides information about the history, collections and services of the National Archives of Tunisia (in French Arabic and English).

Weekly news from the Republic of Congo (in French).

Links to different Algerian ministries and their websites with information and official documents (in French).

Has more than 500 old photos and postcards from the colonial period.

LCN is an umbrella body of NGOs in Lesotho that offers support through leadership training, information dissemination, capacity building, coordination, advocacy and representation when dealing with the government and the international community. Its newsletter is downloadable.

A website with entries on Lesotho, its people, history and language, including a English-Sotho wordlist.

LNDC is the main parastatal charged with implementing industrial development policies in Lesotho.

The latest news from Mauritius (in French).

Weekly news from Niger (in French).

This official government site provides news and information about Liberia's President and executive branch, including details of speeches, events, issues and a staff directory.