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• USAID: United States Agency for International Development on Africa (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries.)
  
  
• US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute on Sub-Saharan Africa Research & Publications (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
  A small selection of publications (in downloadable PDF) by security analysts since 1993; plus links to the rest of the SSI website.
  
  
• United States. Central Intelligence Agency (Washington, DC)
  • Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members of African Governments (World Leaders) (Washington, DC: The Agency) -- Selected by Columbia University Libraries.
  • World Factbook. (Online) (Washington, DC: The Agency)
    Select "Country Listing" to view all individual country files.
  • CIA Home Page (General)
  
  
• US Congress: Public Law No. 106-200 "Trade and Development Act of 2000" (Originally "H.R. 434 and related bills"): United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act and the African Growth and Opportunity Act. (via THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
  
  
• US Department of the Army / Library of Congress, Federal Research Division: African Country Studies [Area Handbooks], 1987-1996
  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Libya
  • Madagascar
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Nigeria
  • Seychelles
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • Sudan
  • Uganda
  
  
  -- See related and updated resource: Country Profiles--2005: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, and Sudan only!
  
  
• US Department of Commerce (Washington, DC)
  • AGOA--African Growth and Opportunity Act Website
    This site includes links to documents and current news relating to U.S. trade and investment issues on Sub-Saharan Africa.
    
    
  • 8th AGOA Forum, 4-6 August 2009, Nairobi, Kenya (via Official Kenyan site)
    
    
  • 6th AGOA Forum, July 18-19, 2007, Accra, Ghana (via Export.Gov)
    The official documents of the United States government's "African Growth and Opportunity Act" 2007 forum and links to previous forums.
    
    
  • International Trade Administration: US-African Trade Profile 2009 17 pages in PDF format (via AGOA.Gov)
    
    
  • For recent documents on economy (and trade), see also: Export.Gov -- Government Export Portal below.
  
  
• US Department of Defense (Washington, DC)
  • AFRICOM--US Africa Command
    Proposed for 2008, an internal reorganization of the U.S. military command structure, creating one administrative headquarters that is responsible to the Secretary of Defense for U.S. military relations with 53 African countries.
    
    
  • Africa Center for Strategic Studies = Centre d'Etudes Stratégiques de l'Afrique
    (Fort McNair, National Defense University)
  
  
• US Department of State
  • Bureau of African Affairs, 2009-
    
    
  • Country Information for Africa
    Press releases, embassy information, and links to reports.
    
    
  • Millennium Challenge Corporation in Africa
    "The MCC is a United States Government corporation designed to work with some of the poorest countries in the world. Established in January 2004, MCC is based on the principle that aid is most effective when it reinforces good governance, economic freedom and investments in people."
    --MCC Home Page
    
    
  • Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Country Reports on Terrorism:
    Africa Overview in 2008 | 2007 | 2006
    --See also: All Countries (1996 to present)
    
    
  • United States Embassies and Other Diplomatic Missions (Africa and elsewhere)
    
    
  • US Travel Advisories for Africa (incl. North Africa)
    
    
  • Bureau of African Affairs -- Bush Administration (Archive)
    See also: "Powell Goes to Africa: A Human Rights Agenda." (May 2001) Human Rights Watch Backgrounder. (New York)
    
    
  • Bureau of African Affairs -- Clinton Administration (Archive)
    -- Press Statements, 2000/2001 (plus links to earlier years -- under Clinton Administration)
    -- Remarks, 2000 (plus links to earlier years -- under Clinton Administration)
    -- "The Trade and Development Act of 2000: Strengthening Our Economic Partnership With Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Basin," May 18, 2000

    A brief "fact sheet". The full congressional document is available from the US Trade Representative. See also: The United States and Africa: A New Partnership -- The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, 2000 (An official history of the act and related links.)

    -- "U.S. - Africa Ministerial: Partnership for the 21st Century," March 16-18, 1999, Washington, D.C.
    
    
  • US Commercial Service -- Current Country Information (All countries)
    See also:
    -- Eastern Africa (includes some countries of Central Africa)
    -- Southern Africa
    -- West Africa (includes Cameroon, Gabon)
    
    
  • Country Commercial Guides and Other Country Information for "Sub-Saharan Africa": 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997
  • Country Commercial Guides and Other Country Information: Middle East & North Africa--Current | Morocco, Tunisia, & ME countries, 2001 | Egypt, Tunisia, & ME countries, 2000 | Egypt & ME countries, 1999
  • Country Commercial Guides for North Africa & The Middle East: 1998 | 1997--ME countries only
  • Country Commercial Guides for the World: 1996
    
    
  • Economic Policy and Trade Practices Reports for Ghana, Nigeria, & South Africa: 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996
  • Economic Policy and Trade Practices Reports for Angola, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, & South Africa: 1995
  • Economic Policy and Trade Practices Reports for "North Africa & the Middle East": 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995--Algeria & ME countries
    
  • Economic Policy and Trade Practices Report:   1994--All Countries
    
    
  • For documents on commerce (economy and trade, etc.) since 2001, see: Export.Gov -- Government Export Portal
    
    
  • Human Rights Reports on Africa: 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
  • Human Rights Reports on "North Africa and the Near East": 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
    
    
  • International Religious Freedom Reports--Africa: 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
    
  • International Religious Freedom Reports--Near East & North Africa: 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
    
    
  • US Dept. of State on Trafficking in Persons Reports, 2001 to present
    
    
  • US Dept. of State on "The National Summit on Africa", February 2000
  • Background Notes on "Sub-Saharan Africa", 1992--
  • Background Notes on "North Africa and the Near East", 1991--
  • Bureau of Intelligence and Research: Arms and Conflict in Africa, July 1999
    
    
  • US Dept. of State: International Information Programs on Africa
    • America.Gov on Africa---News
      
      
    • "Remembering the Embassy Bombings of August 7, 1998" (August 1999) (in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
    
    
  • US Dept. of State, Office of the Historian: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1976: selected documents
    
    
  
  
• US Energy Information Administration on Africa (Selected by Columbia University Libraries.)
  • "Country analysis briefs" on energy production (oil, gas, electricity, etc.), imports, and exports for only a handful of African countries. Plus, world data sheets (1980-98) -- with some African data.
  • See also: EIA on the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
  
  
• US Executive Branch
  • The White House: Foreign Policy, 2009-
    These web pages offer current news, press releases, and links to documents relating to African policy initiatives of the US President, in addition to the activities of the US State Department
    
    
  • President Obama in Ghana, July 10-11, 2009 (via America.gov, Washington, DC)
    
    
  • United States Trade and Development Agency on Sub-Saharan Africa (Washington, DC)
    Lists of projects in the region and related links. "The TDA, an independent U.S. Government agency under the Executive Branch, promotes economic development in developing countries by funding feasibility studies, consultancies, training programs and other project planning services. In Africa, TDA assists U.S. firms by identifying major development projects which offer large export potential and by funding U.S. private sector involvement in project planning."
  
  
• US Export.Gov -- Government Export Portal
  • Trade Information Center: Sub-Saharan Africa -and- The Middle East and North Africa
  
  
• US Geological Survey: Earthquake Information (via Earthquake Hazards Program, Reston, Virginia ; and National Earthquake Information Center, Denver, Colorado)
  
  
• US Geological Survey, EROS Data Center (USGS, Earth Resources Observation Systems Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
  • USGS-EROS Data Center: Earthshots
    Satellite photographs of environmental change in Africa and elsewhere; explanatory notes and useful links to other information sites.
    -- Table of contents (General)
    -- Nile River Delta, Egypt (1973-1987)
    -- Lake Chad, West Africa (1972-1987)
    -- Lake Turkana, East Africa (1973-1995)
    -- Mozambique (1973-1995)
    -- Saloum, Sénégal (1972-1992)
    -- Southern Mauritania (1972-1990)
  
  
• US House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa... (Washington, DC)
  
  
• US Institute of Peace on Africa (via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• US Peace Corps in Africa (Washington, DC)
  General information about Peace Corps programs in African countries and call for volunteers.
  
  
• US Mission to the United Nations on Africa (New York)
  • US Mission to the UN Home Page (General ; search for "Africa" policy statements)
  
  
• US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations--Subcommittee on African Affairs Chairman: U.S. Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin on the Issues--Africa
  
  
• US Trade Representative Reports on Africa - A Comprehensive Trade and Development Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa: An annual report submitted by the President of the United States to the Congress. (USTR, Washington, DC)
  • Reports of the President on US Trade and Investment Policy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, 2001 to present: AGOA reports--African Growth and Opportunity Act (HR 434); Southern African Customs Union Act; Trade and Investment Framework Agreements, etc.
  • USTR General Home Page