Links - Africa & DRC

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• Academic Info: African Studies
• BBC - Country Profile: Congo
• CIA: world factbook: Congo
• Political Resources on the Net: Africa. Links to information on elections, ministeries, various political parties and organizations, news sources and general resources.
• Yahoo: Actualités Afrique / Yahoo: Africa News

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Africa and the DRC

• African Political Resources
• European Union - Relations with Africa
• Government DRC: Official website of the President of DRC Congo
• Congoline - Dialogue Intercongolais: In French. Documents from the meetings.
• Elections 2006
  • BBC on the Election. Profile: Congo opposition candidates (July 25, 2006)
    Q&A: DR Congo elections (July 11, 2006)
    DRC Congo: Key Facts
    
  • IDEA Report on key issues in the July 30 presidential and legislative elections, the first democratic elections in 45 years. Reports on DRC political parties (109 pages in PDF), SADC political parties. Women in the DRC elections, etc. http://www.idea.int/elections/drc_elections06.cfm
  • IFES Election Guide. IFES is an international nonprofit dedicated to the building of democratic societies.
• IDEA International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance: on Africa
• Minesite : Articles on mining companies worldwide.

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International & regional organisations

• African Union
• COMESA : Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, 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
• EU: Development & Relations with ACP
• HRW: Africa
• International Alert - International Alert is an independent peacebuilding organisation working in over 20 countries and territories around the world. Our dual approach involves working directly with people affected by violent conflict as well as at government, EU and UN levels to shape both policy and practice in building sustainable peace.
• ICC - DRC
• IOM - International Organization for Migration
• IOM / OIM - Programme MIDA Grands Lacs
• IMF & the DRC
• Médecins Sans Frontières International Homepage: news, links to country sites, feature articles. (Also known as Doctors without Borders.)
• NEPAD
• UN - IRIN: Africa | Great Lakes region
• UN Mission in DRC
• UN news about DR Congo
• UN News Centre ; United Nations
• UNEP - Environment for development
• UNHCR: DRC - UNHCR: major operations: South Sudan; Chad - Darfur
• OCHA Reliefweb: Africa (latest updates, sectors, background info); DRC.
• World Bank : DRC

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Non-Governmental Organisations and Research Institutes

• African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes: ACCORD is an international civil-society organisation working throughout Africa to bring appropriate African solutions to the challenges posed by conflict on the continent.
• Africa Research Centre - KULeuven
• Africa Web Links - University of Pennsylvania
• Carleton University. Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) - Provides country rankings, on-line presentations and a mapping component, risk assessments, regional conflict analysis, early warning research, and open-source data, measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages
• Columbia University Libraries: African studies
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa: A Pan-African non-governmental organisation. Its constituencies are African research institutes, social science faculties of African universities as well as professional organisations.
• International African Institute (London)
• International Crisis Group - Africa - DRC Update
• Oxfam International: news
• Portaal van de Vlaamse Noord - Zuid Beweging: DRC
• The Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty: Ghana
• USIP -DRC: Web links

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News

• Africa Intelligence: News, analysis, and guides about the continent, individual countries, and top people, with archives.
• allAfrica.com: Distributes content from numerous African news and media outlets. Get news and feature articles on politics, business, sport, music, books, entertainment, and more.
• AfricaFocus: news, analysis
• Bukavu Online 2005
  Site d'informations sur le Congo et particulierement l'Est du pays, le Bukavu.Site de congolais de la diaspora, du Sud Kivu mais surtout ceux de Bukavu. Edité par Mr Olivier Katoto de la RTNC Bukavu. Photos, News, Forum, Sondages... Zone géographique: R.D.C.
• Congopresse
  Actualités online et presses congolaise
  Zone géographique: R.D.C.
• DigitalCongo.net : information on current politics, economy, sports, music, culture. Articles from Congolese newspapers. Also hotel, restaurant, hospital listsing. "un service d'information sur le net fournis par Multimédia Congo s. p. r. l (MMC)." Based in Kinshasa
• Katanga news
  Informations générales du Katanga et de la RDC
  Zone géographique: R.D.C.
• Radio Okapi (MONUC)
• Yahoo: Actualités Afrique / Yahoo: Africa News

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