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Lesotho | Liberia | Madagascar | Malawi | Mali | Mauritania | Mauritius | Mozambique
Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | Sao Tome & Principe | Senegal | Seychelles | Sierra Leone
Somalia | South Africa | Swaziland | Tanzania | Togo | Uganda | Zaire | Zambia | Zimbabwe
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Last updated on February 13, 2008



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

    • Official Site
      • Official Republic of Ghana site, with government information in English
    • Parliament
      • Highlights, news, and members
    • Constitution
      • Text of 1992 constitution in English
    • Embassy of Ghana
      • Official website of the Ghanian embassy to the United States

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

    • Government of Kenya
      • Includes President's Office, government, news, and history
    • Constitution
      • Text of 2001 constitution in English
    • Legislature
      • Kenyon Parliament
    • Central Bank of Kenya
      • Monthly and annual economic indicators since 1996
      • Includes inflation, exchange rates, and balance of payments
    • Embassy to the United States
      • Addresses of government officials
      • Description of economy, education, tourism
    • Kenya Website
      • Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
      • Various aspects of the country
    • Kenyaweb
      • News, tourism, and historical information
      • Unannotated links to government agencies

Lesotho

    • Lesotho
      • Official Government website
      • Government structures and documents
    • Cabinet
      • The country's ministers
    • 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
      • Draft of 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
      • Official site, in French
    • 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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Alex Watson, Documents Assistant, March 2007
Susan Soper, Documents Assistant, January 2005
J.J. Jacobson, Documents Assistant, June 2004
John Downey, Former International Documents Librarian
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