Home

Eastern Africa by Region and Country

• Eastern Africa by country
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• Aksum: an African civilisation of late antiquity. By Stuart Munro-Hay. (1991)---Excerpts -- Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Plain text of original book in PDF format---without bibliographical references -- via Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, Washington, DC.
  
  
• ALIN: Arid Lands Information Network -- Eastern Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "ALIN--Eastern Africa is a network of Community Development Workers who are involved in drylands development...ALIN members are drawn from government departments, non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations."
    The site includes a few newsletters and information about community center programs.
  
  
• All Africa.Com: Recent News Summaries on East Africa (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  News summaries in English based on reports from the Pan African News Agency (PANA), East African newspapers and news agencies, and other sources. See also individual country sections.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• COMESA--Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Lusaka, Zambia)
  This site provides information on banking, 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."
  
  
• Communauté des Etats Sahélo-Sahariens = Community of Sahel-Saharan States (Tripoli, Libye ; via UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  An organization originally founded in February 1998 in Tripoli primarily committed to the goals of economic cooperation and development in the Sahelo-Saharan region.
  
  
• "The contribution of soil and water conservation to sustainable livelihoods in semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa" (Online). Edited by Charlotte Boyd and Cathryn Turton. -- London : Agricultural Research and Extension Network, Overseas Development Institute, 2000.
  PDF file : case studies on Tanzania and Uganda.
  
  
• Djibnet.Com (France)
  Un portail bilingue (français et anglais) avec beaucoup des informations concernant la Corne de l'Afrique (Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea), y compris les actualités brèves, les arts, les économies, et les pages personnelles.
  
  
• East African Bribery Index 2009 -- Nairobi, Kenya: Transparency International Kenya, 2009. 62 pages in PDF format
  
  
• East Africa Living Encyclopedia--"Teaching and Learning About East Africa" Project (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  Basic information on five East African countries summarized and organized under broad subject headings, some teaching ideas, and internet links. "Teaching & Learning about East Africa Project (TLEAP) is a 'living library'--a work in progress--of resources for teaching and learning about East Africa and about Swahili, the most widely spoken language of that region. The educational resources are provided or recommended by East Africa experts on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, and Delaware State University, and by Master Teachers of the School District of Philadelphia."
  
  
• East African, The. (Online) -- Nairobi, Kenya: Nation Media Group, Ltd., 2006-
  The electronic version of a weekly newspaper covering news mostly for Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, sometimes for neighboring countries. Several weeks of reports are readily available on the web site.
  
  
• East African Community = Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki (Arusha, Tanzania)
  • This is the official website of the regional intergovernmental organization (encompassing Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) which was (re)established in 1999 by treaty (see "Key Documents"). The site includes information about the EAC, current news, and related links.
  • EAC Reports and Publications
  
  
• East African Development Library -- Paris, France: UNESCO Direction de l'Information et de l'Informatique, 1999. --via New Zealand Digital Library, University of Waikato, New Zeland.
  A small archive of digitized documents furnished by the World Bank, FAO, UNDP, and other UN agencies on East African development.
  
  
• East African Internet Association: 1996 announcement (via University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• East African Music (Douglas B. Paterson, Seattle, Washington)
  Articles and discographies on the popular music of Kenya, Tanzania, and the Congo. The author of this site is a cultural anthropologist, who also has a radio program in the Seattle area.
  
  
• Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (PTA) = Banque de la ZEP (Zone d'échanges préférentiels) (Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• 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.
  • ELDIS Home Page: select "country profiles", Eldis Online or Google Custom Searches
  
  
• 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
  
  
• ESARBICA: Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch, International Council on Archives (via GeoCities.Com)
  • "ESARBICA established in 1969 in Kenya, ESARBICA brings together individuals and institutions concerned with the creation, use, preservation and management of recorded information in Eastern and Southern Africa."
  • ESARBICA publications
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization - Global Information and Early Warning System: Eastern Africa (Rome)
  Country profiles on crop situation and food consumption.
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Horn of Africa Bulletin - HAB (Online): Archive -- Uppsala : Life and Peace Institute, 1994-1995. -- University of Pennsylvania archive.
  
  
• HANND: Horn of Africa NGO Network for Development (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; via InterAfrica Group)
  This site offers general and contact information about the network and its participants. '[Established in 1997] HANND is a collaboration of some 40 indigenous organizations and civil society leaders in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda'.
  
  
• The Hornet: the Horn of Africa's electronic information exchange (PADIS; via University of Pennslyvania)
  This site provides links to a variety of sources on the Horn of Africa and the "Great Lakes" region. "The Hornet, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a free computer networking service established in early 1994 to promote the exchange of information in and on the Horn of Africa using electronic communications."
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Images of Colonial Africa (circa 1900-1914) by Laura Neva Collins of the Africa Inland Mission (Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois)
  "The images displayed here are one woman's view, mostly of Kenya, at the beginning of the twentieth century, probably before 1914. They depict the country's society, customs, economics, and geography, as well as its growing Christian church, the missionary community assisting in that endeavor, and Collins herself. Also included are some photographs from Cameroon, the Belgian Congo and Uganda."
  
  
• Independent, The. (Online) -- Kampala, Uganda: The Independent, 2008-
  The electronic version of a weekly news magazine for Uganda, East Africa, and the world, with back issue articles since December 2008.
  
  
• Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) = Autorité intergouvernementale pour le développement (via Djibouti)
  • "IGAD is the new name of the Authority superseding the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD) which was created in 1986 by the six drought stricken countries of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda to co-ordinate development in the Horn of Africa. The State of Eritrea became the seventh member of IGADD in September 1993 after its independence."
  
  
• 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 Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region = Réseau documentaire international sur la région des Grands Lacs africains Réseau 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
  
  
• International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: The Miombo Network (Stockholm, Sweden; via University of Virginia)
  • This site offers reports from a series of meetings and on-going projects on the Miombo system of East and South-Central Africa; plus links to related material. Some reports & maps are only available in PDF format. "A Miombo Network meeting was held in Zomba, Malawi during December 4-7th, 1995, with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the IGBP (after several meetings in 1993-94). ...The following countries were represented: Australia, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, Uganda, USA, Zaire and Zimbabwe. ...The Miombo system is taken to include all those Southern and Central African ecosystems which occur under a hot, subhumid, seasonally-wet climate on soils derived from acid crystalline geologies."
  • IGBP-Miombo Network Home Page
  • The Miombo Network: framework for a terrestrial study of land-use and land-cover change in the Miombo Ecosystems of central Africa." Ed. by P.V. Desanker et al. 1997. (IGBP report; 41)
  
  
• The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) (Kampala, Uganda?)
  The web site offers general information about programs, fellowships, and news.
  
  
• IPS Inter Press Service News on East Africa = News in Swahili (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  An "alternative news agency" providing current reports for the region and Africa in general, with selected news stories in Swahili.
  
  
• IRIN: Integrated Regional Information Network on East Africa
  See below.
  
  
• Justice Africa (London, UK)
  • The website of this umbrella organization includes reports on Sudan, Eritrea, and Rwanda. 'Since 1999, Justice Africa works with a network organisations based in different countries in Africa and supports civil society activities for human rights, democracy and peace.'
  • Sudan Civil Project
  • Eritrea Project
  • Citizen's Forum in Rwanda Project
  • HIV/AIDS and Governance Project
  
  
• The Kamusi Project: Online English-Swahili/Swahili-English Dictionary and Swahili Learning Resources. (World Documentation Centre, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK)
  
  
• "Kanga & Kitenge: Cloth and Culture in East Africa," Erie Art Museum, September 27, 2008--April 5, 2009 (Erie, Pennsylvania)
  The web site for this art exhibition features images of kanga from the Museum's collections and photographs of kanga and kitenge being used, Swahili inscriptions, etc. ...all in downloadable PowerPoint files.
  
  
• Kanga Writings -- Pictures -- History (Hassan Ali, Ottawa, Canada)
  A chart of Swahili sayings that often appear on the cotton cloth commonly worn by women in East Africa, especially in Tanzania or coastal Kenya. The chart also includes literal English translation and the deeper meanings.
  
  
• Kituo Cha Katiba -- East African Centre for Constitutional Development (Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
  • The site provides general information about the centre's programmes, as well as an archive of legal documents and instruments, a list of cases pending in Uganda, a list of holdings in the centre's library, maps, other related information.
  • Regional and national laws (constitutions, treaties, orders of council, etc.)
  
  
• Maasai Language Project (Doris L. Payne et al., Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
  The web site offers a description of the project and a set of texts on the history and major features of the Maa language spoken in Kenya and Tanzania.
  
  
• "The Meanings of Popular Culture: Perspectives from the East African Coast," July 21-23, 2006, Mombasa, Kenya. Hosted and coordinated by the School for International Training (SIT) Study Abroad, Swahili Resource Center in Mombasa, The Council on African Studies at Yale University, and others. (via Andrew Eisenberg, Columbia University)
  
  
• Netsite for the Music in the Horn of Africa (Andreas Wetter, Universität Mainz, Germany)
  A selection of audio files of contemporary music from Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, and Sudan, with brief descriptions, a bibliography on the literature about music from the Horn of Africa, and links to other sites.
  
  
• Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere
  • Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
  • "Mwalimu's enduring legacy." (By Peter Anyang' Nyong'o) "News Analysis" The Sunday Nation (Online) October 17, 1999. (The Nation Newspapers, Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "Mwalimu's rise to power.". (By Ali Mazrui) "News Analysis" The Sunday Nation (Online) October 17, 1999. (The Nation Newspapers, Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya)
  • Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere : A Short Biographical Note (South Centre, Geneva, Switzerland)
  
  
• The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) (NBI Secretariat, Entebbe, Uganda)
  General information about the programme and its committees. "[Launched in Dar es Salaam in February 1999] ... The NBI is a regional partnership within which countries of the Nile basin have united in common pursuit of the sustainable development and management of Nile waters. ... supersedes the disbanded 'Technical Co-operation Committee for the Promotion of the Development & Environmental Protection of the Nile Basin.'" See also, The Nile River Basin -- Maps Nile Basin Water Resources Management)
  
  
• Nilo-Saharan Newsletter = Informations nilo-sahariennes (via CNRS-LLACAN, Villejuif, France)
  • Ce site --en français ou en anglais-- est consacré aux études et recherches concernant les langues nilo-sahariennes, qui sont parlées au centre et à l'est du continent africain. Vous trouverez ici: un "who's who" (provisoire) des études nilo-sahariennes; une liste d'institutions (universités, centres de recherche, éditeurs...) en relation avec le domaine; des annonces de colloques, etc.
  • Liste de publications
  • 10th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium = 10ème Colloque de Linguistique Nilo-Saharienne, Paris, France, 22-24 août 2007
  
  
• NomadNet
  Currently, a web site offering links to major news reports and analyses on events -- with a focus on relief and development efforts -- in the Horn of Africa...especially Somalia and The Sudan. The webmaster is promising broader African coverage in the year 2000.
  
  
• Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies:
  The Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960 (Evanston, Illinois)
  An inventory and description of the collection of 6,500 photographs and sample images.
  
  
• Les Nouvelles.Org: Ethiopie, corne de l'Afrique, mer Rouge (Les Nouvelles d'Addis, Montmirail, France)
  Le site Web du journal bimestriel d'informations générales dédié à l'Ethiopie et à la corne de l'Afrique. Le site offre les depêches des médias et une archive des articles depuis 2002 sur l'Ethiopie et la région de l'Afrique de l'Est...en plus des actualités culturelles pour la diaspora surtout en Amérique et en France.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Organization of African Unity: International Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the Surrounding Events, July 7, 2000 (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  See also, the African Union Home Page.
  
  
• Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  • General information about the organization and its activities and publications. "OSSREA was established in April 1980, held its Firsct Congress in June 1983, and celebrated its Tenth Anniversary, in conjunction with its Third Congress, in Kampala, Uganda, in May 1990...Its current membership is drawn from 11 countries, but its constitution opens membership to social scientists in 18 countries ... and institutional membership is open to all institutions, within or outside the region."
  • OSSREA Publications
    This section offers information about publications and selected online versions, including:
    -- OSSREA newsletter. (Online) since February 2002.
  
  
• Project Elgon (Mount Elgon, Uganda-Kenya Border) (University of Leeds, UK)
  Students and faculty from the U.K. and Uganda, assisted by staff from Makerere University, Mount Elgon National Park, and local people, carried out studies in 1996 in and around Mt. Elgon. This website is a compilation of basic information on the people, the wildlife, and the environment of the region, online papers from the project team, images, and useful links.
  
  
• PTA Bank: Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (Nairobi, Kenya)
  
  
• Research ICT Africa: Towards an African e-Index: SME e-Access and Usage in 14 African Countries (2006) (LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) PDF format
  The countries covered in this survey include Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
  
  
• Rift Valley Institute (Nairobi, Kenya)
  • "...an independent association based in Kenya and the United Kingdom. The Institute was established in 2001 to support research, publishing and educational initiatives in the African Rift Valley region. Fellows of the Institute include academic specialists from Africa, Europe and the Americas and local and international practitioners in the fields of aid, development, environmental conservation and human rights."
  • Sudan Abduction & Slavery Project, 1983-2003
  • See also: Sudan Open Archive
  
  
• The Saharan Studies Association (via Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona)
  "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 downloadable scholarly newsletter (twice a year) since 1993.
  
  
• Sahel weather and crop situation. (Online). -- Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization, Global Information and Early Warning System, 1995-
  SWCS is issued by the FAO/GIEWS every month throughout the growing season (June to October). The report 'describes weather conditions, pest infestations and crop prospects in the Sahel, a drought-prone zone'. Current and back issues.
  
  
• Shikanda Portal -- Works by Wim van Binsbergen (Wim van Binsbergen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
  The website by this major European scholar whose fieldwork and publications span three decades on religion, social anthropology, history, and philosophy in and about Africa---esp. east-central and southern Africa.
  
  
• Social Science Research Council -- Crisis in the Horn of Africa (SSRC Africa Program, New York)
  SSRC news analysis forum on Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan.
  -- See also: Making Sense of Darfur
  
  
• Bibliography of the South Asian diaspora and East Africa: an annotated bibliography (2002) Anthroglobe. (Dr. Andrew Mickleburgh, International Culture Studies Department, Gyosie International College, Reading, UK; via Coomsweb, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
  
  
• SCECSAL--Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (via South Africa)
  General information on the organization, member contact information, resolutions, call for conference papers, and links to conference proceedings.
  -- XVIII SCECSAL Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 15-18 July 2008
  
  
• 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."
  
  
• The Sudanese travels of Theodoro Krump (1700-1702) -- Excerpts from: Hoher und Fruchtbarer Palm-Baum des Heiligen Evangelij. English. (Prof. Jay Spalding, Dept. of History, Kean University, Union, New Jersey)
  "Offered here is an English translation of the Sudan portion of Theodoro Krump's book (Augsburg: Georg Schulter & Martin Happach, 1710). The present version is adapted with minor modifications from the Hambata edition of 1979, in turn derived from the copyrighted text of 1974."
  
  
• Swahili Language Resources on the Internet. (via Columbia University)
  See also: The Kamusi Project: Online English-Swahili/Swahili-English dictionary above.
  
  
  
• Tanzania Studies Association (via Tony Waters, California State University, Auburn, California)
  • General information about the organization and its activities. TSA is an associate organization of the African Studies Association of the United States. The site has useful links for scholars and students of Tanzania and East African history; including two bibliographies and other documents.
  • Swahili studies bibliography, compiled by Kelly M. Askew.
  • Tanzania studies bibliography, compiled by Shobana Shankar.
  
  
• Trade and Environment Database - TED (Dr. James Lee, Project Coordinator, American University, Washington)
  • Case study and comparative reports produced by students on various aspects of environmental problems and economic development worldwide. Many reports include useful bibliographies.
  • TED Home Page
  • Eastern Africa case studies: Kenya, Madagascar, and Uganda
  • North and Northeast Africa: Egypt and Somalia
  
  
• UNEP-GRID: United Nations Environment Programme/Global Resource Information Database (In association with the US Geological Survey/EROS Data Center and with the National Aeronautics & Space Administration; Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA)
  • General Home Page
  • Environmental aspects of the African Great Lakes Region, 1997
  
  
• UNESCO--United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- Eastern Africa (Paris, France)
  • UNESCO Nairobi -- Education Sector (Kenya)
    This website features news, conference announcements, and reports on education in Kenya and other countries in Eastern Africa: Burundi, Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda.
    -- 6th International Preparatory Conference on Youth and Adult Learning in Africa, November 5-7, 2008, Nairobi, Kenya
    
    
  • Media & HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa: a resource book. Edited by S.T. Kwame Boafo, in collaboration with Carlos A. Arnaldo. -- Paris: UNESCO, 2000. PDF format
    
  
  
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Eastern and Southern 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.
    -IRIN for East Africa
    -IRIN for Great Lakes and Central Africa
    -IRIN for the Horn of Africa
  • ReliefWeb on Great Lakes Region
    • Links to current or breaking news stories on the situation in Rwanda, Burundi, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The reports are compiled and archived by the UN OCHA Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) and other news services.
  
  
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Eastern Africa (Washington, DC)
  • USAID--Famine Early Warning System Network
    Information on the Horn of Africa, Southern Africa, and the Sahel--West Africa.
  • FEWS NET Greater Horn (East) Africa Center
    Current news and analysis of the food security situation on the countries of the Horn of Africa -- read online or download as a PDF files; plus links to other FEWS NET resources.
  • USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)
    Search the entire USAID database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on the countries of the Horn.
  • USAID Africa Bureau, Office of Sustainable Development: Africa Trade and Investment Policy Program (ATRIP)
  
  
• United States Geological Survey Earthshots (USGS, Earth Resources Observation Systems Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
  • Satellite photographs of environmental change in Africa and elsewhere; explanatory notes and useful links to other information sites.
  • Lake Turkana, East Africa
  • Table of contents (General)
  
  
• 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 London, School of Oriental and African Studies Library: Swahili Manuscripts Project (London, UK)
  • The website describes the on-going project and offers an online catalog of the collection. "The library of the School of Oriental and African Studies holds the largest public collection of Swahili manuscripts in Britain. The collection includes more than 250 manuscripts dating from the 1790s to the 1970s, contained in the papers of William Taylor, Alice Werner, William Hichens, Wilfred Whiteley, Jan Knappert and Yahya Ali Omar. The library also holds microfilms of the manuscripts that were deposited by JWT Allen at the University of Dar es Salaam."
  • Selected images from manuscripts and audio files
  
  
• Volcanoes in the African Region Volcano World. (Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon)
  An inventory list with photographs and maps. Note: the majority of Africa's known volcanoes are in Eastern Africa.
  
  
• Zanzibar International Film Festival: 27 June--4 July 2009 (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
  General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."
  
  

Eastern Africa (by country)

Burundi	Ethiopia	Somaliland
Djibouti	Kenya	Sudan
Egypt	Rwanda	Tanzania
Eritrea	Somalia	Uganda