www.intl-crisis-group.org/
The prestigious International Crisis Group, chaired by Senator George Mitchell and with board members including Shimon Peres, Michel Rocard, Graca Machel and Shirley Williams, has produced comprehensive reports on Algeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
wwwnotes.reliefweb.int/
A UN site offering comprehensive news updates and reports in English and French from Angola, the Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), Eritrea/Ethiopia, the Great Lakes region, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan.
www.usip.org/
The United States Institute of Peace, funded by Congress, offers detailed yet readable reports on the Horn of Africa, Angola, Sudan and the DRC.
www.unhcr.ch/world/alpha.htm
A United Nations High Commission on Refugees site offering information on refugee problems throughout the world. Twenty-nine entries on Africa, links to news agencies AP and Reuters and to the Washington Post.
www.ncf.carleton.ca/coat/
Useful information and links on the international arms trade, though still rather fixated on NATO and Yugoslavia.
www.janes.com/geopol/geoset.html
Information on the arms trade and interesting, but seriously dated, background on security situation in various countries; tells us for example that Mobutu Sese Seko is "expected to stay [in Morocco] for a time before moving to France". Mobutu died in September 1997.
www.trocaire.org/inde.html
Policy documents on the debt crisis, human rights, and trade, aid and the international division of labour.
www.who.org/
World Health Organisation guide to health issues, including detailed reports on tropical diseases and their treatment and on AIDS