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- Katine It all starts with a village
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The Guardian is tracking Amref's three-year development project, in partnership with Barclays, to improve the lives of the 25,000 people in Katine sub-county in Uganda. There website explains where donations go, how aid works, and how lives are changed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine
(Added: Wed Jul 09 2008 Hits: 25)
- The Zeleza Post
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News and commentary on the Pan African world.
(Added: Wed Nov 07 2007 Hits: 23)
- Soul Beat Africa
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Soul Beat Africa is an online knowledge and information service on communication for development in Africa.
http://www.comminit.com/africa
(Added: Thu Nov 01 2007 Hits: 86)
- Off the Map: How HIV/AIDS Programming is Failing Same-Sex Practicing People in Africa
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This report from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission explores the ways in which governments, donors, and NGOs are denying a basic set of human rights protections to same-sex practicing Africans, and the denial on efforts to combat the AIDS epidemic.
http://www.iglhrc.org/files/iglhrc/otm/Off%20The%20Map.pdf
(Added: Thu May 17 2007 Hits: 40)
- African Affairs
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African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society. It publishes articles on recent political, social and economic developments in sub-Saharan countries. Also included are historical studies that illuminate current events in the continent.
http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/
(Added: Mon May 29 2006 Modified: Tue Jun 06 2006 Hits: 234)
- Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review
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Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review facilitates scholarly discourse on the social, economic, political, and environment aspects of Eastern and Southern Africa.
http://www.ossrea.net/publications/eassrr/index.htm
(Added: Mon May 29 2006 Modified: Tue Jun 06 2006 Hits: 193)
- Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC)
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SARDC is an independent regional information resource centre which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of key development processes in the South African region through the collection, production and dissemination of information.
(Added: Tue May 23 2006 Hits: 95)
- Indigenous Information Network
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The organisation was founded by a group of professionals in response to addressing needs particularly regarding availing information through media and other channels about indigenous peoples, their livelihoods and challenges they face as they struggle to exist. The organisation is based in Kenya and is involved in dissemination of information, community development, lobbying and advocacy activities in support of indigenous and minority peoples in the region.
http://www.indigenous-info-kenya.org/
(Added: Thu Apr 20 2006 Modified: Thu Jun 22 2006 Hits: 59)
- Knowing Africa
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This site will provide interested individuals and communities a window into the hidden facets of the African Continent. The site is also a gateway into the lives of people from Africa and the African in the Diaspora.
http://www.knowingafrica.com/ISSUES.html
(Added: Wed Jan 12 2005 Modified: Fri Dec 21 2007 Hits: 131)
- Africa South of the Sahara: Selected internet resources
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Stanford University online link database that includes: Current Events; Development; History; Human Rights; International Relations
http://library.stanford.edu/africa/
(Added: Thu Sep 18 2003 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 226)
- AllAfrica.com
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This website, allAfrica.com, is among the Internet's largest content sites, posting over 1000 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in asearchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997). Includes links to its sister sites, 'Sustainable Africa', 'Peace Africa' and 'Biztech.'
(Added: Mon Dec 16 2002 Modified: Fri Jun 02 2006 Hits: 186)
- Eldis Country Profiles
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Quick-links guide to country level information: news, statistics, organisations and sectoral information.
http://www.eldis.org/country/index.htm
(Added: Wed Jul 24 2002 Modified: Thu Jun 29 2006 Hits: 261)
- AllAfrica Global Media
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AllAfrica Global Media is the leading provider of African news and information worldwide, through news feeds to institutional and agency clients and through allAfrica.com. We post more than 700 new stories daily from over 100 African media organizations and from our own award-winning reporters.
(Added: Tue Mar 26 2002 Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006 Hits: 182)
- One World
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The full range of OneWorld content from its partner network, in 12 languages and organised by eight main topics (with 80 sub-topics) and by country/region... use as your library, resource or just browse.
http://www.oneworld.net/section/indepth
(Added: Wed Jul 11 2001 Modified: Thu Jun 29 2006 Hits: 172)
- African Business
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African Business is the leading business magazine in Africa. It combines an intimate pan-African knowledge with a broad international outlook. African Business publishes regular surveys on African countries with detailed economic analysis of each major sector and reliable up-to-date facts and figures.
http://www.africasia.co.uk/africanbusiness/
(Added: Thu Jul 05 2001 Modified: Fri Sep 08 2006 Hits: 303)
- New African
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New African devotes itself to covering exclusively the affairs of the continent and the African Diaspora with the interest of the whole region in mind, not one country or group of countries. New African is identified directly with Africa and gives the reader, once a month, the best coverage of the events which affect the continent. Its purpose is to serve the interests of Africa and it is dedicated to the progress and unity of Africa.
http://www.africasia.com/newafrican/index.php
(Added: Thu Jul 05 2001 Modified: Fri Sep 01 2006 Hits: 226)
- Environment & Urbanization
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This twice-yearly journal provides researchers, NGO staff and professionals in Africa, Asia and Latin America with the chance to write about their work, present their ideas and debate on issues. It promotes the work of French, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking authors by arranging for the translation of their work into English. It is one of the few journals on Africa, Asia and Latin America where a majority of the authors come from these regions. Now in its 13th year of publication, it is one of the most widely read and distributed journals in its field. Each issue has a special theme.
http://www.iied.org/human/eandu/eandu_submit.html
(Added: Thu Jun 21 2001 Modified: Tue Jun 06 2006 Hits: 659)
- Development Southern Africa
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The journal publishes articles which reflect innovative thinking on key development challenges and policy issues facing South Africa and other countries in the southern African region.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/0376835X.html
(Added: Tue May 15 2001 Modified: Tue Jun 06 2006 Hits: 357)
- Third World Quarterly
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A leading journal of scholarship and policy in the field of international studies. Third World Quarterly examines the issues that affect the many Third Worlds. TWQ provides an alternative and over-arching reflective analysis of micro-economic and grass-root efforts of development practitioners and planners. TWQ links the academic terrains of the various contemporary area studies - Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Middle East.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/01436597.html
(Added: Tue May 15 2001 Modified: Tue Jun 06 2006 Hits: 255)
- Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks Program
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The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
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