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Rwanda
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Saotome
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Sierra Leone
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Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
West Sahara
Western Sahara
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Lesson Plans
- Africa Lessons (School Discovery)Provides lesson plans on Africa, with a special emphasis on Zimbabwe. 1-02
Lists
- Africa - East African News (AfricaNews Online)
Provides news directly from each country in Eastern Africa, including Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
- Africa - North African News (AfricaNews Online)
Provides news directly from each country in Eastern Africa, including Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara.
- Africa - Okavango
- Africa - Travel Information by Location (Excite.Travel.com)
Provides information on dining, where to stay, and interesting things to see. Search by city, state, or country. Includes Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros and Mayotte, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 3-02
- Africa - West African News (AfricaNews Online)
Provides news directly from each country in Eastern Africa, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea, Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
- African Countries (Dinar)
Provides a comprehensive and excellent description of all African countries.
- African Countries (Dinar)
Provides a comprehensive and excellent description of all African countries.
- African Languages (Dinar)
- African Wildlife Foundation
Provides descriptions and pictures of African animals. 1-01
- Health and Safety for Travelers to Africa (About.com - Venter)
Provides sources of information for travelers to maintain their health. 11-01
Materials
- Awesome Library in French
Surf the Internet in French. Also provides a language translator for text and a search engine that works in French.
News
- -African News (AfricaNews Online)
 Provides news directly from each country.
- 07-0903 African Aid from U.S. in Question (BBC News)
"Aid experts say that it may be difficult for many African countries to meet the strict conditions that the US has set for receiving funds from the new Millennium Challenge Account, which requires nations to adhere to strict standards of openness and democracy."
"There are also significant problems of health care delivery in relation to HIV/Aids, with many African nations lacking the basic public health infrastructure to deliver improved care."
"Meanwhile, experts are concerned about the lack of progress in negotiations over trade in agricultural products, which could offer more real benefits to African economies than any aid programme." 7-03
- AIDS - Vaccine for AIDS Works (USA Today News - Sternberg)
 "Nearly two decades after the discovery of the AIDS virus, researchers Monday report for the first time that an AIDS vaccine can prevent infection but with sharply different success rates depending on race."
"The first full-scale human trial of the vaccine, AIDSVAX, indicates that although the vaccine failed to protect whites and Hispanics, it appears to be effective in Asians and blacks. Blacks account for half of all new infections in the USA, federal statistics show."
"Jose Esparza, director of AIDS vaccine research for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), called the finding 'probably the most important accomplishment in vaccine research in 15 years. This is the first time anyone has shown protection (against HIV) in humans, not monkeys.' "
"Although the vaccine failed to provide protection overall, it was 78.3% effective in blacks and 68% effective in Asians." 2-03
- AIDS in Africa - The Numbers (CNN - Christensen)
"In coming to grips with AIDS, the worst health calamity since the Middle Ages and one likely to be the worst ever, consideration inevitably turns to the numbers."
"According to estimates from UNAIDS, an umbrella group for five U.N. agencies, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, 34.3 million people in the world have AIDS -- 24.5 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 19 million have died from AIDS, 3.8 million of them children under the age of 15." 2-03
- Africa News (AllAfrica.com)
- African News (AfricaNews Online)
Provides news directly from each country in Central Africa, including Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Equatorial, Guinea, Gabon, Saotome and Zambia.
- African News for Sustainable Health and Peace (AllAfrica.com)
Provides news related to water, health, agriculture, and biodiversity. 12-03
- News in French (LanguageBox.com)
Provides news in French. Includes Agence France Presse from France, Le Soir from Belgium, L'Express from France, Le Jour from the Ivory Coast, Le Monde from France, Tribune de Geneve from Switzerland, Liberation from France, Elle from France, Le Soleil from Senegal, Oh La! from France, Le Nouvel Observateur from France, La Tribune from Algeria, and Le Soleil from Canada. 8-00
- U.S. Commits $15 Billion to Fight AIDS in Africa (Reuters)
"Bush on Tuesday signed into law a $15 billion plan to help fund the fight against AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, a move which aid agencies welcomed." 5-03
Papers
- African Children Dying of Hunger - Again (Independent - MacGregor and Butler)
"Nearly 13 million people are on the brink of starvation as the worst food crisis in a decade spreads across six countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Lesotho." "In Malawi, the men risk their lives to dive for water-lily bulbs in crocodile-infested rivers and kill mice to eat and sell. The women gather wild grasses and boil up weeds to feed their children." 6-02
- African Culture (LifeinAfrica.com)
"The Life in Africa Foundation was founded in Uganda in 1999, in order to harness the power of the Internet to foster an increased international understanding of Africa and African people, and to make a lasting impact - through supporting microfinance in Africa - on the lives of ordinary African people who face extraordinary life challenges every single day." 2-01
- Dark Skin - Photographing Persons of Color (New York Insitute of Photography - Zucker)
Provides tips on photographing persons of color. 'If I am lighting a black person, I'm not going to change the light, I'm not going to bring it in any closer. I'm not going to open up an extra f-stop.'
'The only thing I'm going to do is use the light coming from the side and around the subject. What we need to do when we're photographing a black person is to bring an extra light in from a 90-degree angle.' 6-02
- HIV and AIDS - Child Activist Dies (CNN)
Provides news of the death of 12-year-old Nkosi, who has provided world leadership in the fight to stop discrimination against children who have contracted the disease. 2-01
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