Angola
- Angola Website
- Maintained by the Embassy of the Republic of Angola, Washington, DC
- Angolan culture, business, news; relief efforts to aid the country
- Under Government: structure of the
government, profile of the President, and election statistics
- Under Reference: directory of key
officials, constitution, news releases and speeches
- Constitution
- Text of 1992 constitution in English
- Laws (Library of Congress)
- Guide to legal collections on Angola
- Parliament
- Searchable text in Portuguese
- Permanent Mission to the United Nations
- List of UN ambassadors and other pertinant information
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
- President
- Executive branch of government
- Searchable text in French
- Constitution
- Text of 1996 constitution in English
- Index on Africa
- Annotated links to Cameroon's politics, economy, culture,
environment, tourism, and news
- From the Norwegian Council for Africa
- Embassy of Cameroon
- Offical site of the Cameroon Embassy in the United States
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Congo (Republic of)
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
- Official Website of Guinea
- Contains information about the political institutions of Guinea
- Contains economic and geographical information
- Searchable text in French
- Judiciary
- High courts of Guinea
- Searchable text in French
- Guinean U.N. Mission
- Permanent mission of the Republic of Guinea to the United Nations
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
Kenya
Lesotho
- Lesotho
- Official Government website
- Government structures and documents
- Cabinet
- Senate
- Legislative branch of government
- Constitution
- Text of 1993 constitution in English (PDF)
- Central
Bank
- Annual report beginning 1996
- Current data on government finance
- Lesotho Website
- Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
- Various aspects of the country
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
- Parliament
- The transitional government of Rwanda
- Constitution
- Text of 1991 constitution in English
- Embassy to the United States
- Current press releases about Rwanda from the Washington Post
- Basic facts includes geography, people, and political
issues
- International Criminal Tribunal (UN)
- Court indicted Jean Paul Akayesu for genocide
- Text of indictment, hearings, rules of the court, and annual reports
- Full text of judgment issued September 1998
- Rwanda Website
- Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
- Various aspects of the country
- Leave None to
Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda (Human Rights
Watch)
- Full-length book documenting causes for the 1994 genocide of 500,000
Tutsi in Rwanda
- Uses primary sources and articles to conclude the international
community response was insufficient
- Nicely segmented into HTML sections
- Rwanda Online
- News, politics, culture, and society
São Tomé & Príncipe
- President
- Official site of the President of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, in Portugese
- National Assembly
- Official site of the National Assembly of São Tomé and Príncipe, in Portugese
- Statistics
- Government statistics in Portuguese
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Somalia has no functioning government as of
March 2007
South Africa
Swaziland
- Government
- Speeches of Prime Minister
- Addresses of cabinet agencies
- Reform agenda and weekly issues Swaziland
Today, the official government newsletter
- Parliament
- Members of Senate and Assembly
- Address of His Majesty at opening 1997 session
- Text in English
- Constitution
- Swaziland Website
- Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
- Varius aspects of the country
Tanzania
Togo
- Constitution
- Text of 2003 constitution in English
- National Assembly
- Republique Togolaise
- Descriptive information on foreign, economic, and domestic affairs
- Government ministers included under Information Utilities
- Text in French and English
- News
Uganda
Zaire
- See Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Related
Information
- African Data
Dissemination Service (USGS)
- Maps showing rainfall and types of vegetation in Africa
- Africa Research
Central
- Guide to archives, museums and libraries in Africa
- Searchable databse of primary source repositories in Africa
- Links to archives in U.S. and Europe
- Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford U.)
- Extensive annotated guide to individual African countries and the region
- Includes culture, politics, travel, human rights
- Searchable by topic, country, and keyword
- African Governments on the
Web (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Comprehensive and updated list of government agencies and embassies
- Tabular index by country indicates number of entries and
last update
- African
Population Data Base (UNEP)
- Population counts for 4800 administrative units in Africa, 1960,
1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000
- The full data set must be ftp-ed
- African
Wide Database (UMich Only)
- Index to over 300 journals and books on the entire African continent
since the 19th Century
- Includes scholarly material from African, European, and North
American sources
- Most entries have a brief annotation
- Commonwealth Secretariat
- Background on member countries
- History, geography, social, economic, and statisticial
information
- First
African Rulers
- List of first head of state of individual African countries beginning
1957
- Name coded with reason for leaving office and a link to the current
ruler
- IFC in Africa (Internaitonal Finance Coporation)
- Basic economic and investment data for individual countries in Africa
- Directory of IFC projects
- Guidance on investment procedure
- Middle
East/North Africa Resource Guide (U. of Utah)
- Comprehensive guide to internet resources for the Middle East,
North Africa, and Central Asia
- Also includes Mauritania, Somalia, and a section on African Studies
- Resources arranged by country and by academic discipline
(anthropology, economics, history, religion, sociology)
- Links include country home pages, discussion lists, and homepages of
foreign students residing in the U.S.
- Organizations of Africa
(MBENDI)
- Extensive list of African international organizations with a
description and mail/phone contacts
- Links from many of the organizations to descriptions of their member
countries
- Political
Resources
on the Net
- Hundreds of links to parties, movements, elections,
political
organizations, government, and embassy web sites arranged by
country
- Searchable by country or world region
- Web site has outstanding coverage and merits its high
ratings
- United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa
- News of social and economic development issues
- African Economic Outlook provides analysis
of economic and social conditions with some regional and country
statistical data
- AfricaBIB lists periodical articles found under
Bibliographical Resources
- U.S. AID: Sub-Saharan Africa (Agency for International Development)
- Country and regional aid programs
- News, sports, and cultural information
- Statistics and maps on crops, famine potential, and economic
development
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