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DRC news site.

DRC news site.

DRC daily and news site.

Run by US government-backed Voice of America.

Privately owned, London-based.

Privately owned, based in Harare.

Privately owned weekly.

Privately owned weekly.

Privately owned weekly.

Privately owned business weekly.

Privately owned daily.

Bulawayo-based, government-owned daily.

Government-owned daily.

The Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle newspaper and was freely distributed to households in the then apartheid-segregated township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province.

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.

The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa. It is one of the titles under the Independent News & Media South Africa Group.

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 Daily Maverick is run by an independently owned, private company.

The Mail & Guardian is a South African weekly newspaper.

The Sunday Times is the South Africa's biggest Sunday newspaper.

Times Live is part of the Times Media Group.

Privately owned newspaper.

Government owned, Tanzania's oldest newspaper.

The Namibia Economist is an online newspaper in Namibia covering mainly economic topics.

The New Era is a daily national newspaper owned by the government of Namibia. The newspaper is one of four daily national newspapers in the country, the others being The Namibian (English and indigenous languages), Die Republikein (Afrikaans and English) and Allgemeine Zeitung (German).

The Windhoek Observer is an English-language Saturday weekly newspaper, published in Namibia by Paragon Investment Holding. It is the country's oldest and largest circulating weekly.

The Namibia Press Agency, (NAMPA), was established in 1991 as a national news agency responsible for the distribution of local, regional and international news.

Of the several newspapers published in Namibia, The Namibian is most widely circulated.

Police and demonstrators have clashed in the DRC in the latest round of violence sparked by an ongoing political crisis in the troubled central African state. President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled since 2001, is banned under the constitution from running again but has given no inclination he will stand down in December.

Photos by Reuters photographer Finbarr O'Reilly, on The Boston Big Picture (2009).

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.

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.

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent national institute, founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible, practical, and essential for U.S. and global security. USIP pursues this vision on the ground in conflict zones, working with local partners to prevent conflicts from turning to bloodshed and to end it when they do. The Institute provides training, analysis, and other resources to people, organizations, and governments working to build peace.

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.

In November-December 1980, Frits Eisenloeffel visited the border region of Sudan/Eritrea where he photographed the Eritrean refugees who had fled from an Ethiopian offensive. Part of The Frits Eissenloeffel online photo exhibition by the Dutch International Institute for Social History (IISG).

Journalist Frits Eisenloeffel was invited by the EPLF (Eritrean People's Liberation Front) to document their struggle against the Ethiopian occupation army in 1980. He visited the Afabet front where he photographed the EPLF fighters and their educational, cultural and medical activities. He also visited the destroyed town of Nacfa (capital of Northern Sahel province) and the refugee camp of Wagrad. Part of The Frits Eissenloeffel online photo exhibition by the Dutch International Institute for Social History (IISG).

Journalist Frits Eisenloeffel travelled through Guinea-Bissau in August 1974 to document the transfer of power from the Portuguese to the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência de Guiné e Cabo Verde). He captured the moment in the garrison town of Polibaque City, where among the assembled Portuguese and PAIGC troops the Portuguese flag was lowered in favor of the PAIGC flag. This was only one of the many transfers before the Portuguese completely left the country. Part of The Frits Eissenloeffel online photo exhibition by the Dutch International Institute for Social History (IISG).

Journalist Frits Eisenloeffel travelled to Guinea and Cabo Verde in August-September 1981 to report on the developments since independence in 1974. On the Isle of São Antão he photographed a reforestation project in which pine-trees are planted on mountains to prevent erosion. On the same island he took photos of government officials João Pereira Silva (minister of agriculture) and Ovidio Fernandes (party chef of Ribeira Grande) explaining the unpopular plans for socialist land reforms to the people in a public meeting in Ribeira Grande. Part of The Frits Eissenloeffel online photo exhibition by the Dutch International Institute for Social History (IISG).

Journalist Frits Eisenloeffel travelled through Senegal in February-March 1978, following the national elections. The pictures on this page show a political rally in Dakar of the Parti Socialiste du Sénégal and a polling station in Dakar, where president Senghor comes to cast his vote. Part of The Frits Eissenloeffel online photo exhibition by the Dutch International Institute for Social History (IISG).

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).

Journalist Frits Eisenloeffel visited Angola in 1975 and 1976 to witness the transfer of power from the Portuguese to the Angolan liberation movement and the reconstruction of the country. In Luanda he photographed the parades and festivities surrounding the 20th anniversary of the founding of the MPLA, a May day parade and the overthrow of the symbols of the colonial rule: statutes of Portuguese generals, clerics and other notables. He also witnessed the start of the civil war between the political rivals MPLA, FNLA and Unita in April 1975 in Luanda and in 1976 in the South of Angola. Part of The Frits Eissenloeffel online photo exhibition by the Dutch International Institute for Social History (IISG).

Journalist Frits Eisenloeffel travelled to Mozambique in 1975 to capture in images the transfer of power from the Portuguese to Frelimo. Three weeks before independence the new Frelimo President Samora Machel launched a tour through the country in which he, accompanied by vice-President Marcelino Dos Santos, visited also the construction site of the Cahora Bassa Dam near Songo. Part of The Frits Eissenloeffel online photo exhibition by the Dutch International Institute for Soacial History (IISG).

The International Institute for Social History (Netherlands) offers access to archives from NiZA (Dutch Institute for Southern Africa, now ActionAid), fully processed by archivist Kier Schuringa, in alphabetical order. These archives are all freely accessible. All inventories are in Dutch only.

Posters in the Stanford University Hoover Institution collections.

With its eminent scholars and world-renowned Library and Archives, the Stanford University Hoover Institution seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.

The Africa Center is a U.S. Department of Defense institution established and funded by Congress for the study of security issues relating to Africa and serving as a forum for bilateral and multilateral research, communication, training, and exchange of ideas involving military and civilian participants. Its mission is to advance African security by expanding understanding, providing a trusted platform for dialogue, building enduring partnerships, and catalyzing strategic solutions.

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.

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.

In 2002, Rwanda’s traditional Gacaca courts were revived as a way to process the millions of criminal cases that arose following the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. In total, 1,958,634 genocide related cases were tried through Gacaca. This archive is of unparalleled significance, both to Rwanda and the world, as a record of the process of justice and reconciliation.

Audiovisual Preservation Exchange Ghana is an ongoing initiative of New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) M.A. Program. Since 2008, the initiative has aimed to promote Ghanaian audiovisual archives through collaboration and knowledge exchange between Ghanaian archivists, MIAP students and faculty, and our respective affiliated professional networks.