Acacia:
The Internet: Out of Africa (http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-1-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html)
“The Acacia initiative is an international program to empower sub-Saharan
communities with the ability to apply information and communication technologies
(ICT’s) to their own social and economic development.” Includes a
newsletter, a 2001-2005 prospectus, a map of the digital divide, and more. Text
in English and in French.
The African Conservation Foundation from African websites.net (http://www.africanconservation.com/)
“The portal for the Conservation of Africa's Flora and Fauna... provides
in-depth information from our project network as well as conservation databases,
interactive knowledge base & discussion forums and many other resources.”
BIOTA-AFRICA (http://www.biota-africa.de/800/frames/biota-africa.htm)
Science: Environment: Forests and Rainforests. A German-supported transect study
of the Biodiversity of West Africa (Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin), East Africa
(Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), and Southern Africa (Namibia and South Africa.
Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html)
Links to numerous maps including a Southern Africa forest & protected area
map.
Convention on Biological Diversity (http://www.biodiv.org/default.asp)
Promotes conservation, sustainable use and equitable benefit sharing.
Empowerment for African Sustainable Development
(Cape Town) (http://easd.org.za/)
Organization dealing with environmental management and sustainable development;
includes full text publications, links to related sites.
EnviroLink (http://www.envirolink.org/)
“The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing
access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.”
Federation of American Scientists (http://www.fas.org)
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) “is the oldest organization
dedicated to ending the worldwide arms race, achieving complete nuclear disarmament,
and avoiding the use of nuclear weapons for any purpose.” Whatever one’s
views are on its goals, a search of the site yields valuable information on a
country’s armament found only with difficulty elsewhere.
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) (http://www.irinnews.org)
A unit of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “ ...pioneered
the use of e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and
from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa, cheaply and
efficiently. Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely,
strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian
community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports
efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation
and propaganda.”
International Rivers Network: Linking human rights and environmental protection(http://www.irn.org/programs/lesotho/)
Links to projects in Lesotho, Uganda, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya Ghana,
and Tanzania.
Mbendi, Information for Africa (http://www.mbendi.co.za)
“Africa's leading business website and one of the world's top mining, energy
and international trade websites. The site has been designed to assist business-people
to identify and research business opportunities in the country and industry sectors
of their choice.” Provides the economic profile, investment and information,
such as visa requirements and currency exchange rates.
National Game
Parks (http://www.wildlifeafrica.co.za/botsnationalparks.html)
Commercial site. Links to game parks in Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa,
Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Includes photographic gallery, and information
on animal behavior.
Omni Resources (http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/int/safrica.htm)
Burlington, North Carolina commercial site; sells wide variety of maps of South
Africa and many of its cities, including geological, topographic, provincial,
road maps, and street guides.
SAfAIDS--Southern Africa Aids Information Dissemination Service (http://www.safaids.org)
SAfAIDS is a regional HIV/AIDS resource (RHR) established in 1994 and based in
Zimbabwe. The organization's goal is to disseminate HIV/AIDS information in order
to promote, inform and support appropriate responses to the epidemic in the fields
of HIV prevention, care, long-term planning and coping with the impact. Site
covers all of Southern Africa. Lists NGOs and government departments in Malawi,
Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Screen Africa (Strathavon South Africa) (http://www.screenafrica.com/)
Monthly news magazine devoted to South African film, television, video, radio
and multimedia industry.
Shuttleworth Foundation: Innovation in Education (http://www.tsf.org.za)
Aims to improve quality of South African education by focusing funding efforts
into mathematics, science and open source projects; prefences given to Grades
4 through 9; provides information on how to apply for funding; links to events,
partners, etc.
South African Internet Resources (http://www.anc.org.za/sanet.html)
Extensive coverage of all topics. Links to all levels of government, national,
regional, international associations, societal and environmental issues, etc.
Southern Africa and the
Southern African Development
Community (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/sadc.html)
Provides economic and energy sector overview for the 14 member-states of Angola,
Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,
Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Overviews included also
for Comoros and Madagascar.
Southern African Center for Cooperation in Agricultural and Natural Resources
Research and Training (SACCAR) (http://www.info.bw/%7Esaccar/sacca.htm)
“Was established in 1984 by the Southern African Development Community
(SADC) to coordinate and monitor agricultural and natural resources research
and training activities in the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Sector
of SADC, and to promote cooperation between member states.
Southern African Development Community (SADC) (http://www.sadc.int/)
Offers information on the regional development projects and the integration of
the economies of member states of Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
United States. Agency for International Development (USAID) Leland Initiative:
Africa Global Information Infrastructure Project (http://www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/leland/countries.htm)
Covers telecommunications: Partner countries are: Benin Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire,
Eritrea. Ethiopia, Ghana , Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi,
Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,
and Zimbabwe.
United States. Energy Information Administration. Country Analysis Brief on South
Africa (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/safrica.html)
Provides data on oil, natural gas, electricity, coal, synthetic fuels; export,
consumption, exploration and production; includes economic, energy, and environmental
overview; also gives information on various factors affecting the energy sector.
Links to important U.S. government sites as well as worldwide.
Websites of U.S. embassies and consulates (http://usembassy.state.gov/)
Provides information on US government mission and services, and public and private
sector information on each country.
Welcome to Africa. No- the Index on Africa (http://afrika.no/)
Links to news, information, annotated resources on African countries. Sponsored
by the Norwegian Council for Africa.
The World Conservation Union (http://www.iucn.org)
Founded in 1948, and with 980 members in 140 countries. “The World Conservation
Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental
organizations in a unique world partnership.”
World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/home-page/)
The official site of the WHO offers text in English, French or Spanish on its
mission and health initiatives, programs and warnings world wide.
World Species List-- Animals Plants Microbes. (http://species.enviroweb.org/)
Includes endangered species.
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