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Central Africa by Region and Country

• Central Africa by country
  
  
• ABBOL--AEquatoria Book Bank On-Line = AEquatoria Bibliothèque de Base On-Line In association with the Centre Aequatoria, Mbandaka, République démocratique du Congo. (Lovenjoel, Belgium)
  'The e-books offered on this site are mainly drawn from other e-book projects, such as the Gutenberg Project.' The editors claim that ABBOL is digitalising and editing its own materials for the Book Bank.
  In late April 2006, the e-library consisted of a short selection of European travellers accounts from the 19th century and older works on the historiography of central Africa, including those on the "Lyanja" epic....in French!! See also, the much longer list of links to other Africa-related electronic texts on the Web.
  
  
• Africa Forum: "Towards a State-Less Central Africa? Some Theoretical Reflections" =   "Vers une Afrique Centrale sans Etats - Quelques Réflexions Théoriques" par Stefaan Smis et Saskia Van Hoyweghen, Centre des études africaines de Bruxelles. (via H-AFRICA, H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  See also the   responses from Filip Reyntjens et al. under "Africa Forum #7", as well as the other "African Forum" discussions.
  
  
• African Recipes from The Congo Cookbook (via RPCV Web Ring)
  "The "central African" recipes on this website ... were collected by an epicurean Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who taught English in Gabon, traveled across Central Africa, obtained a degree in African Studies, and who loves to eat, cook, and surf the 'net."
  
  
• African Renaissance Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, 28-29 September 1998: Misc. Papers (Sponsored by Mafube Publishing, SABC 2 and the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr. Thabo Mbeki)
  • Thabo Mbeki's speech at the conference
  • Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja Lecture on "The Crisis in the Great Lakes Region" (Reposted by Africa Policy Information Center, Washington, DC): Part 1 | Part 2
  
  
• Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere: Swahili Forum. (Online) -- Mainz, Germany: Universität Johannes Gutenburg.
  • The current issue in full text and tables of contents for previous issues.
  • "A bibliography of Swahili literature, linguistics, culture and history." Swahili forum ; 10 (2003). Edited by Rose Marie Beck, Lutz Diegner, Thomas Geider, Uta Reuster-Jahn. (PDF format)
  
  
• Afriquecentrale: portail d'information de l'Afrique centrale (France)
  Un site des actualités pour tous les pays de la région, avec une archives des vieux articles depuis 2004.
  
  
• Agence universitaire de la Francophonie: Bureau Afrique Centrale (Yaoundé, Cameroun)
  A ce site, on peut lire les actualités sur l'éducation dans la région de l'Afrique Centrale et suivre les liens aux autres sites.
  
  
• All Africa.Com: Recent News Summaries on Central Africa (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  News summaries in English based on reports from the Pan African News Agency (PANA), UN agencies, East and Central African newspapers and news agencies. See also individual country sections.
  Warning: the searchable archive for articles older than 30 days is only available through subscription.
  
  
• AMANI Forum--The Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum of Peace (Nairobi, Kenya)
  A regional organization of African parliamentarians which tries to monitor conflict resolution cases in the Eastern Africa and offer training, with national chapters in 7 countries. The site includes news and reports from workshops and meetings.
  
  
• Anthropology Back Door to the Web: L'Afrique centrale (Dr. Bernard Clist, Grasse, France)
  • Page d'accueil = Home Page
  • Bibliographie de l'archéologie de l'Afrique centrale (2006)
  
  
• CBOLD: Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary (Department of Linguistics and the Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California, Berkeley ; via L'Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, France)
  • The site offers descriptions of the project and its components, with tools for linguistic analysis, a selection of dictionaries and word lists, and related links. "The CBOLD project was started in 1994 by Larry Hyman and John Lowe to produce in Berkeley a lexicographic database to support and enhance the theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguistic study of the languages in the important Bantu family."
  • Online Searchable Dictionaries and Word Lists
  • Bantu Maps and   Mapmaker
  
  
• Banque de France: La Zone Franc, 2003-- (Paris, France)
  • Voir aussi: France. Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances, et de l'Industrie (via Columbia University Libraries).
  
  
• Base de Données sur les pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre (Food and Agriculture Organization / Système Mondial d'Information et d'Alerte Rapide sur l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation, Rome)
  "Ce site est en développement et vous propose pour le moment une série d'informations de base sur les pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre. Ce serveur a été développé en 1996 un appui financier de la France dans le cadre d'un fonds fiduciaire. Vous pouvez consulter différents documents concernant l'agriculture et l'alimentation de ce pays. Les sujets traités dans chacun de ces documents sont détaillés ci-après, ainsi que les sources ayant servi à leur réalisation."
  
  
• CARPE--Central African Regional Program for the Environment (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland; in association with the United States Agency for International Development--USAID, Washington, DC)
  --  CARPE Documents
  --  CARPE Data/Maps
  
  
• Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Pipeline Project
  • Chad/Cameroon Development Project Web Page (Exxon-Mobil Corporation, USA)
    A public relations website about the planned oilfield pipelines project in Chad and Cameroon; includes news and links to useful online articles, photos, and even a video.
  • Environmental Defense Fund on the Chad/Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project (New York)
    --   Chad Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: A Call for Accountability (June 2002) (PDF)
    --   Chad Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: Putting People at Risk =   "Projet pétrolier et d'oléoduc au Tchad et au Cameroun peuples et environnement en danger" par Korinna Horta (1999)
    --   EDF Library -- General Search
  • The World Bank: Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, 1998-- (Washington, DC)
    An overview of the Bank's role in the project.
  
  
• CIPACO: Centre sur les politiques internationales des TIC = Centre for International ICT Policies, Central and West Africa (Dakar, Sénégal)
  "[CIPACO] est mis en place afin de renforcer les capacités des acteurs pour une meilleure participation à la prise de décision internationale en matières des TIC ...Cinq activités: animation d'un système d'information, réalisation d'études et d'analyses, organisation de débats électroniques appui à la participation à des réunions internationales clés, collaboration avec les autres initiatives spécialisés sur les politiques des TIC."
  
  
• COMESA--Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Lusaka, Zambia)
  This site includes links to country profiles, information on banking, online trade directories for some countries, and many other links with an emphasis on business and economic information. "COMESA exists 'as an organisation of free independent sovereign states which have agreed to co-operate in developing their natural and human resources for the good of all their people'. With its 19 member states and population of 300 million it forms a major integrated trading block."
  
  
• Communauté Economique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale = Economic Community of Central African States (Libreville, Gabon ; via Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa)
  • La CEEAC a été crée en octobre 1983 par les membres de l'Union Douanière et Economique de l'Afrique Centrale et les membres de la Communauté Economique des Pays des Grands Lacs, ainsi que Sao Tomé et Principe. En 1999, l'Angola est devenu membre.
  • Documentations
  
  
• ECOFAC: Conservation et utilisation rationnelle des Ecosystèmes Forestiers d'Afrique Centrale (Programme régional de l'Union européenne, Bruxelles, Belgique)
  • "ECOFAC intervient actuellement dans six pays (Cameroun, Congo, Gabon, Guinée Equatoriale, Republique Centrafricaine São Tomé et Principé). Dans chacune de ses composantes, le programme contribue à la gestion d'une ou de plusieurs aire(s) protégée(s)."
  • Canopée: bulletin sur l'enivronnement en Afrique centrale. (Online) -- Bruxelles : ECOFAC, 1994--
  • Librairie
    On peut télécharger quelques fichiers de la librairie.
  
  
• ELDIS: Electronic Development and Environment Information System (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  • An indexing service provided by IDS. Papers are selected from all over the Internet based on topics in African, Asian, and Latin American studies. Documents are produced by research institutes or international organizations. Some documents are electronic versions of printed works, while others are full online documents--with citations and bibliographies. Note: Some documents listed in the search are only accessible at the IDS library, University of Sussex.
  • Great Lakes Region on the Internet
  • Search Home Page -- Select Subject Guides (over 60 subject headings) or 'Hot Topics'
  
  
• Enough: The Project to End Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity -- Reports on The Sudan, Chad, DRC, Uganda, Kenya, etc. (Washington, DC)
  -- See also: Sudan Peace and Democracy Watch
  
  
• Ethno-Net Africa Publications on West and Central Africa (MOST-Management of Social Transformations Programme, UNESCO, Paris)
  "Ethno-Net Africa is a UNESCO-MOST network of African social scientists engaged in comparative research, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts and social change in Africa. It attempts to address ethnic issues in a more constructive, comparative and regional perspective, identifying common denominators and drawing lessons from experiences in specific countries and regions."
  
  
• 2ème Sommet des Chefs d'Etat sur les Forêts d'Afrique Centrale, Brazzaville, Congo, du 4 au 5 février 2005 (via République du Congo, Brazzaville)
  • Déclaration du deuxième Sommet des Chiefs d'Etat d'Afrique Centrale sur le Bassin du Congo, le 5 février 2004
  • Voir aussi: le site de la COMIFAC--Commission des Ministres en charge des Forêts d'Afrique Centrale (Belgique)
  
  
• Great Lakes Centre for Strategic Studies (London, UK)
  Selected news and analysis from various sources on the region: "To improve reporting capacity in the region, GLCSS provides training in investigative journalism techniques to African journalists and provides access to its political, economic, and military databases. GLCSS is not a policy organization; its overarching aim is to encourage transparency in reporting about African Great Lakes issues and provide a single source of accurate information about the region."
  
  
• Hirondelle Foundation = Fondation Hirondelle: Media for Peace and Human Dignity (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  This website offers information --in French, English, German, & Italian-- about the activities of an international media support organization and includes special reports and links to news agencies in so-called crisis areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Great African Lakes region. "
  -- See for example: Hirondelle Agency Arusha: information, documentation and training agency covering Rwandan genocide trials, Arusha, Tanzania...in English, French, Kinyarwanda or Swahili
  
  
• H-Swahili Discussion Network (H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  A forum for scholars -- in English and in Swahili, with the archive of e-mail discussions and information on how to subscribe.
  
  
• Human Rights Watch -- Afrique Centrale: Communiqués et Rapports, 2000-2001 (New York and Brussels)
  
  
• International Crisis Group (Washington, DC ; Brussels, Belgium)
  • "The ICG is a private, multinational organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of the international community to understand and respond to impending crises. ICG's approach is grounded in field research ... and advocacy."
  • ICG Home Page
  • ICG Reports Index on Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi: 1996-
  
  
• International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region = Réseau documentaire international sur la région des Grands Lacs africains (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • The website is in French or in English consisting of an archive of documents from governments, local and international NGOs, scholars, and other individuals from the early 1990s to the present.
  • Documents published on the web site since December 2002
  
  
• IRIN: Integrated Regional Information Network on the Great African Lakes Region
  See below.
  
  
• International Conference on the Great Lakes Region = Conférence international sur la région des Grands Lacs (Bujumbura, Burundi)
  • "In November 2004, the eleven Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the International Conference on the Great Lakes region (IC/GLR) unanimously adopted the Dar es Salaam Declaration on Peace, Security and Development in the Great Lakes region in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Since then, the conference has met in 2006 and 2007.
  • ICGLR Document Center
  
  
• International Court of Justice = Cour internationale de Justice (The Hague, The Netherlands)
  • The legal arguments, judgements, and discussion surrounding the cases before the court.
  • ICJ Home Page = CIJ Page d'accueil.
  • Democratic Republic of Congo vs. Rwanda, 2002-
    Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (2002-)
  • Republic of Congo vs. France, 2002-
    Criminal Proceedings in France, 2002-
  • Republic of Guinea vs. Democratic Republic of Congo, 1999-
    Ahmadou Sadio Diallo case, 1999-
  
  
• International Peace Academy on Great Lakes Region (New York)
  • Civil society and democratic transitions in the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda (April 2005) by Mashood Issaka and Batabiha Bushoki. -- New York: IPA, 2005. PDF format
    
  • Civil Society and the State: Partnership for Peace in the Great Lakes Region. Report of the 21-22 June 2004 Civil Society Task Force Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya (Dec. 2004). By Jacqueline Klopp. -- New York: IPA ; Nairobi, Kenya: Africa Peace Forum, 2004. PDF format
    
  • IPA Home Page
  
  
• International Rescue Committee (New York)
  The website offers information about IRC activities, selected news reports on emergency situations and conflict zones, and an extensive library of resources--SEARCH for reports on African Great Lakes or countries of the region. 'Since 1993, the IRC provides humanitarian aid to refugees and other victims of oppression and violent conflict around the world'.
  
  
• Investir en Zone Franc: Les Guides Pratiques sur les Pays de la Zone (IZF.Net, France)
  • A l'initiative du Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur, la Banque de France, l'Association IBISCUS, la Banque Mondiale, et les Fonds Monétaire International, ce site offre beaucoup des liens utiles au investisseur ou à l'étudiant des économies de la région << Zone Franc >>.
  • Bulletins officiels de la Communauté Economique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) (Bangui, Central African Republic ; via IZF.Net, France)
  
  
• IPS Inter Press Service News on Central Africa = Afrique centrale, l'autre information (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  An "alternative news agency" providing current reports [in English or in French] for the region and Africa in general, with selected news stories in Swahili.
  
  
• Le Bâton d'Ishango...20.000 ans...le plus vieil objet mathématique = The Ishango Bone...20,000 years...oldest mathematical object (Musée de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles)
  • Voir aussi: Autour d'Ishango (Vrjie Universiteit Brussel)
  
  
• Journal of Humanitarian Assistance. (Online) (Medford, Massachusetts)
  This online journal contains many articles on Africa, especially the Great Lakes Region.
  
  
• Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa: Archives in Popular Swahili [of the Eastern Congo] (Vincent A. de Rooij, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  A set of online texts: Excerpts from Tshibumba Kanda Matulu's "History of Zaire" as told to Johannes Fabian in 1974, in KiSwahili and English translation, plus a few other parallel KiSwahili-English texts and a "Boloki" text from the late 19th century. The collection is in part a supplement to Johannes Fabian's Remembering the present: painting and popular history in Zaire (published by University of California Press, 1996). The online texts are part of a web site announcing an electronic journal.
  
  
• LDGL: Ligue des Droits de la Personne dans la région des Grands Lacs africains (Bujumbura, Burundi)
  Un site pour tous les ONGs dans la région, avec les actualités et beaucoup de rapports sur la situation des droits humains et de sécurité depuis 2003 pour chaque pays.
  
  
• "Mama for Story": Excerpts from Tributes to E. M. Chilver and Other Publications (Ian Fowler, David Zeitlyn, et al., Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK)
  This document contains excerpts from articles on Cameroonian history and social anthropology that have appeared in journals published in 1995-1996. There are links to other excerpted texts and related web sites, as well.
  
  
• Mandara Mountains Homepage (S. Cattini-Muller and G. Muller-Kosack, Mandaras Publishing, London, UK)
  • A website highlighting the ethnographic literature and history of the peoples of the northern Mandara mountains in north Cameroon and northeast Nigeria.
  • Northern Mandaras bibliography
  
  
• Méga-Tchad (via Universität Bayreuth, Germany)
  • 'Depuis 1984, Méga-Tchad était un réseau international de recherches pluridisciplinaires sur l'histoire et l'évolution des sociétés dans le bassin du lac Tchad.'
  • Voir surtout, les numéros en ligne (depuis 1997) du bulletin du réseau:   Méga-Tchad. (Online) -- Bayreuth: Universitét Bayreuth, 1986-
  
  
• Miombo Network (Global Environmental Change Lab, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, Penn State, Pennsylvania)
  "A partnership of scientists, natural resource managers and policy makers interested in the sustainable development of the Miombo Ecosystem and region. The Miombo Network was founded in 1995 under the auspices of the IGBP, LUCC and START, and has national level activities in the following countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania & South Africa, with coordination provided through Penn State."
  The web site --still under re-construction-- features project news, data, remote sensing images, links to full text reports and journal issues.
  
  
• Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale = Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgique)
  • The website offers information and photos from exhibitions, related links, and lists of publications--only a few are online.
  • Lists of publications
  • Inventory of The Stanley Archives (426 p.) Format PDF.
  • Une Introduction à l'Ethnohistoire des Hema du Nord (Congo du Nord-Est) par Edmond Thiry (2004). -- Tervuren, Belgique: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 2004. (127 p.) Format PDF.
  
  
• Musée virtuel de la Civilisation: Exposition Virtuelle d'Art Kongo--Le pays Kongo (Ne-Kongo Networking Assistance, USA and France?)
  
  
• Observatoire de l'Afrique centrale. (France?)
  Un portail des actualités sur l'Afrique centrale --- extraits de la presse africaine et des autres services. Pour accéder les vieux numéros (un à un), il faut cliquer sur le << Numéro précédent >>.
  
  
• ODINAFRICA: Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization--UNESCO, Paris, France)
  This website outlines various programs of the ODINAFRICA--a project involving about 20 African countries. The site includes current and recent news, conference information, and other data about Africa's oceanic resources.
  
  
• OneWorld.Net on Central Africa (OneWorld Broadcasting Trust, UK)
  Recent online news and news analysis with a focus on human rights, sustainable development and the environment. Sources include African electronic newspapers and news agencies, African NGOs, Inter-Press News Service (IPS), and UN agencies.
  
  
• Organisation internationale de la Francophonie:   << Coopérer pour la paix dans l'Afrique des Grands Lacs : quel rôle pour les droits de l'Homme et l'humanitaire? >> (2001) 3e Symposium de la Francophonie, Genève, Suisse, 27-28 septembre 2001 (Paris, France) Format PDF.
  
  
• Placide Tempels -- Un Site Web (via Michael Meeuwis, University of Antwerp, Belgium ; Centre Aequatoria, Belgium)
  "Le but de ce site web est de mettre à la disposition du public plusieurs documents qui touchent à la vie et au travail de Placide Tempels, l'auteur de La Philosophie bantoue, livre largement discuté depuis 1945." La collection comprend la traduction française du livre en texte intégrale. Voir aussi, le site en anglais.
  
  
• Radio Okapi (Les Nations-Unies et la Fondation Hirondelle; Kinshasa, RD Congo; Lausanne, Suisse)
  Les actualités du pays et de la région, des fichiers sonores, un dialogue entre congolais, et même une bibliothèque de textes et lois. "Radio Okapi est née le 25 février 2002. ...Elle dispose, outre le studio principal à Kinshasa, de 8 stations régionales, d’une vingtaine d’émetteurs FM et de 3 émetteurs ondes courtes."
  
  
• Reforming the Heart of Darkness - The Congo Reform Movement in England and the United States (Jim Zwick, Boondocks.Net.com, USA)
  A historical archive of selected online excerpts from books, newspapers, and magazines -- including those by E.D. Morel, Booker T. Washington, Joseph Conrad, and Mark Twain -- and various other publications relating to the late 19th/early 20th century events in the "Congo" and the reactions to Belgian and other European imperialist activities; plus promotional links to Amazon.Com's offers for selected publications on the subject.
  
  
• Remnants of ritual: selections from the Gelbard Collection of African Art (Illinois, USA)
  A website featuring an image gallery from a large and varied collection of art objects mostly from West and Central Africa and a few from the region of Malawi-Mozambique-Southern Tanzania; plus information about the exhibition catalog.
  
  
• Réseau d'information pour le développement durable en Afrique centrale (RIDDAC) (Yaoundé, Cameroun)
  << Fondé en 1999, le RIDDAC a pour but de contribuer à la mise en oeuvre du développement durable en Afrique centrale, en mettant en place une plate-forme permanente de diffusion de l'information [surtout sur les ressources forestières, la diversité biologique, et l'environnement], et en favorisant des dynamiques d'échange et de partage de celle-ci, de manière à susciter, faciliter et à encourager les débats constructifs...>>
  -- Veuillez voir surtout: RIDDAC Bibliothèque
  
  
• Le Hub Rural: Appui au développement rural en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre =
  The Rural Hub: Supporting rural development in Western and Central Africa (Dakar, Sénégal)
  • Ce site met à la disposition du public des bases de donnés sur le développement rural--en format PDF; un annuaire des agences gouvernementales, des organismes privés, et des centres de recherche; en plus, un recueil des liens aux sites Web.
    << Le Hub rural a pour vocation d’aider les acteurs d’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre à mettre en cohérence les programmes menés en direction du monde rural.>>
  • Ressources en ligne
  
  
• SAFCO: Sida en Afrique du Centre et de l'Ouest (Fondation du Présent, Geneva, Switzerland)
  Les archives d'un forum électronique: 'C'est un forum public indépendant qui bénéficie du soutien du Programme commun des Nations Unies sur le VIH/SIDA et de ses partenaires nationaux et régionaux....en collaboration avec la Fondation du Présent.'
  
  
• The Saharan Studies Association (via SRI International, Menlo Park, California)
  "The SSA is a body of scholars with common interests, associated with the African Studies Association of the United States [formed in November 1992]." The association produces a News web page and a downloadable scholarly newsletter (twice a year).
  
  
• Saint Helena Island, British Overseas Territory -- Official Government Web Site
  
  
• Sangonet: Actualités sur l'Afrique (Victor Bisséngué, France)
  Extraits des actualités de l'Agence France Presse et des autres agences -- surtout: Actualité Centrafrique, points de vue, evénements culturels, sites Internet.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art: "In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa 1885-1960", December 2, 2002 - March 16, 2003 (Washington, DC)
  The website features images from the photography exhibition.
  
  
• Soft International, Le. (Online) -- Brussels; Paris ; Kinshasa: Finpress Group Afrimages, 2002-
  Une archive des actualités et des commentaires. Un quotidien sur la République démocratique du Congo, sur l'Afrique centrale, et sur le reste du monde. Pour lire les articles choisis des archives, cliquer sur: << actu >>.
  
  
• Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa. (Online) by Luise White. Studies on the history of society and culture. -- Berkeley, CA: University of California Press Electronic Editions and The University of Californa Library, 2000.
  The full text of the online version of this book. "Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction."
  
  
• Strategic-Road.Com: Guerres en RD Congo = Wars in DR Congo (Voiron, France)
  Un repertoire de liens aux ressources sur la guerre en RDC...sous les thèmatiques des actualités, des guerres et des conflits, des droits de l'homme, et des autres dossiers.
  
  
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Commission Economique pour l'Afrique, Bureau sous-régional pour l'Afrique Centrale (Yaoundé, Cameroun)
  • Voir surtout:   Les économies de l'Afrique Centrale 2004: les infrastructures de transport: bilan et perspectives. -- Yaoundé, Cameroun: Nations Unies Commission Economique pour l'Afrique, Bureau sous-régional pour l'Afrique Centrale, 2004.
  
  
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on West and Central Africa At a glance. (New York)
  Basic information, statistics, maps, & indicators.
  
  
• UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (Formerly UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs)
  • OCHA Home Page (General)
  • Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) for Africa (English) or in French.
    Daily and weekly bulletins for regions and individual countries. The "country archive" contains reports since 1999, depending on the country.
    --   IRIN on Great Lakes and Central Africa
  • ReliefWeb on Great Lakes Region
    • Links to current or breaking news stories. The reports are compiled and archived by the IRIN-CEA and other news services.
  
  
• Universiteit Antwerpen, Centrum voor de studie van het gebied van de grote meren in Afrika = Centre d'étude de la région des grands lacs d'Afrique: Publications (Antwerp, Belgium)
  • Voici une inventaire des publications du centre -- y compris les textes intégrals des vieux numéros de l'Annuaire des Grands Lacs et les tables des matières du numéro plus récent. Le site est disponible en néerlandais, en français, ou en anglais.
  
  
• University of Florida Libraries:  René Lemarchard Collection (Dan Reboussin, Gainesville, Florida)
  This web site is about the Central Africa archival collection at the George Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. "The collection includes copies of official reports and other documents assessing political situations and events, newspapers from several countries, and copies of unpublished studies and reports. Countries covered include Rwanda, Burundi, Dem. Rep. of Congo (former Zaire), Chad, and to a much lesser extent Gabon and Libya."
  
  
• World Policy Institute (New York)
  • WPI Home Page (General)
  • "Dollars and Sense: The Business of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Who Benefits?" -- July/August 2001 by Dena Montague and Frida Berrigan.
  • "Deadly legacy: U.S. arms to Africa and the Congo War," by William D. Hartung, Bridget Moix. -- New York: Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy Institute, [2000]
  
  
• World Resources Institute: An analysis of access to Central Africa's rainforests. By Susan Minnemeyer, with contributions from Tyson Walker ...[et al.] --Washington, DC: WRI, 2002. PDF format. [Data and analysis from the Congo Basin and Cameroon.]
  
  
• Central Africa (by country)

Angola	Burundi
Cameroon	Central African Republic
Chad	Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)	Equatorial Guinea
Gabon	Rwanda
São Tomé & Príncipe