Political Science Issues: Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

Gateways to Internet Resources from four American universities

News sources

Africa Confidential - "One of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with the in-depth news on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent".

AllAfrica.com - AllAfrica posts nearly 500 stories from more than 80 African news publications everyday.There is an option to search by individual country.

BBC News: Africa

Research Centres for international development

Global Development Network - A worldwide network of research and policy institutes.

Institute for Development Studies - A leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development. Based at the University of Sussex.

Overseas Development Institute - Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

United Kingdom: Department for International Development - UK Government department that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty.

United Nations websites

UN Economic Commission for Africa

UN Development Programme (Africa)

UN University (Priority Africa)

International Institutions

International Monetary Fund

World Bank

Regional Institutions

African Union - Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity issued the Sirte Declaration (9/9/99) calling for the establishment of an African Union.

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa - "Economic prosperity through regional integration".

Community of Sahel-Saharan States - CEN-SAD ... intends to work together with the other regional economic communities and the Organization of African Unity, to strengthen peace, security and stability and achieve global economic and social development.

Economic Community of Central African States [Site under construction, revamp, 01/06/07]

Economic Community of West African States - The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional group of fifteen countries, founded in 1975 whose mission is to promote economic integration in "all fields of economic activity, particularly industry, transport, telecommunications, energy, agriculture, natural resources, commerce, monetary and financial questions, social and cultural matters".

New Partnership for Africa’s Development - "NEPAD is designed to address the current challenges facing the African continent. Issues such as the escalating poverty levels, underdevelopment and the continued marginalisation of Africa needed a new radical intervention, spearheaded by African leaders, to develop a new vision that would guarantee Africa’s renewal".

Southern African Development Community - "The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been in existence since 1980, when it was formed as a loose alliance of nine majority-ruled States in Southern Africa known as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), with the main aim of coordinating development projects in order to lessen economic dependence on the then apartheid South Africa. The founding Member States are: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe".

Union du Maghreb Arabe - Currently in Arabic and French. English version may be due soon.

Miscellaneous

Hopes on the Horizon : Africa in the 1990s - Chronicles the rise of pro-democracy movements during the 1990s in six African countries (Benin, Nigeria, Rwanda, Morocco, Mozambique and South Africa). Premiering on PBS February 16, 2001 this two-hour documentary (narrated by Derrick N. Ashong, with original music by Tunde Jegede), tells the stories of the men and women who initiated, witnessed, and participated in these tumultuous changes.

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