Sierra Leone
Widening Awareness












Regional Awareness – The Gambia
-1
Regional Politics (MFA)
In this section of the Resource Centre we concentrate on links that
cover the essential details relating to The Gambia.
The Gambia
http://www.mapzones.com/world/africa/gambia/politicsindex.php
An extensive site that covers most areas of the economy and politics
http://home3.inet.tele.dk/mcamara/
The site of a Gambian living in Denmark
http://www.einnews.com/gambia/newsfeed-Gambia-GovernmentPolitics
A news service site that contains regular updates on all matters
relating to Gambian economy and politics
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Gambia.html
A brief history of The Gambia
http://www.africainformation.net/africa10.htm
Regional Awareness – The
Gambia- 2









A good portal site with lots of links to relevant materials on The
Gambia
http://www.afrol.com/categories/politics
A well written site that covers all of Africa and therefore contains
regular details of Gambian politics
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/cs
nmp_thegambia.pdf#search='The%20Gambiapolitics'
A PDF copy of The Commonwealth Foundation Report on Good
Governance in The Gambia
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/afbase.htm
The well respected site of the International Relations Department
at Keele University (UK) which has a section dedicated to The
Gambia
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/poli1.html
A portal which is based at Stanford University (USA) and contains
many useful links to sites that cover The Gambia and all other
African states
Regional Awareness – Ghana - 1











http://www.rabbilondon.com/
A London based news service that covers topical political
events
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ghtoc.html
The US Congress Country Studies – full of political analysis
and comment
http://www.ghanaforum.com/forum/links.php
A recently introduced discussion forum that covers topical
issues
http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/ghana/development
A site dedicated to monitoring human rights
http://www.polity.co.uk/politics/polrow.asp
A well resourced portal dealing with regional politics
http://www.politicalresources.net/ghana.htm
Regional Awareness – Ghana - 2









A range of links to sites dealing with Ghanian politics
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/
artikel.php?ID=73056
An interesting and respected site that analyses current
affairs in Ghana
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/afbase.htm
The respected University of Keele (UK) site
http://www.ghana.co.uk/news/content.asp?articleID=1413
9
A UK based site that covers political events in Ghana
http://www.ghanaian-chronicle.com/
Official site of The Chronicle Daily – a respected newspaper
in Ghana
Regional Awareness – Nigeria














http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/Politics.html
A site dedicated to details on Nigerian political parties
http://www.nigeriaworld.com/
A wide-ranging site that contains analysis of contemporary issues
http://nigerianpolity.blogspot.com/
One of the growing number of blog sites that cover Nigerian life
and politics
http://www.nigeriainfonet.com/Srchdata2/ngpolitics.htm
An interesting portal with a large range of links
http://www.nigeriainfonet.com/Directory/government__politics3.h
tm
A search engine dedicated to Nigerian politics
http://www.nigeria.com/dcforum/DCForumID26/69.html
Another in the growing number of discussion forums which
focuses on daily life, including political events in Nigeria
http://www.nigeriaarchive.com/
The archives of Nigeria Daily
Regional Awareness –
Francophone Africa - 1












The University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom offers a wide range
of links concerning Francophone Africa. What follows is a series of
links that will allow you access to a wide range of information on
the countries that form this part of Africa.
http://www.hum.port.ac.uk/slas/francophone/frac-in0.htm
This link directs you to the ‘Thematic’ section which contains a
wide range of useful connection to information on the following:
The Best Francophone Africa Links
Images of French West Africa
Bibliographies
Conferences
Cinema
Culture
Development Aid
Economics
Education
Regional Awareness –
Francophone Africa - 2













Environment
Francophone
History
Libraries and Archives
Literature
Media
Politics
Resources
Rural Issues
Scholarly Associations and Organisations
Tourism
Women
http://www.hum.port.ac.uk/slas/francophone/COUNTRY.HT
M


















Regional Awareness –
Francophone Africa - 3
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Chad
Congo
Cote d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of Congo
Djibouti
Guinea
Gabon
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Rwanda
Senegal
Togo
An example of the above is:
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Country_Specific/Guinea.html
Francophone Africa - 4



The above is the very useful site of the University of
Pennsylvania, USA and its Guinea page.
The following link connects you to a media site that covers
many of the newspapers published both within Francophone
Africa and elsewhere on the continent. It is always worth
checking all links as some may have ceased to exist.
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.php
UN Agencies








UNDP
http://www.undp.org/
UNCTAD
http://www.unctad.org/
UNHCR
http://www.unhcr.ch
FAO
http://www.fao.org/
Other useful agencies









IMF
http://www.imf.org/
The World Bank
http://worldbank.org
UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/
The above is the front page of an extensive
site on the work of UNICEF.
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/centr
alafrica.html
The above is the lead page for West and
Central Africa.
Other Resources

A course on Global Awareness
http://www.johnbirchall-economist.com/GlobalAwarenes1.doc
Virtual World Affairs
An extensive site that offers links to many others dealing with
world issues
www.etown.edu/vl
http://www.eureporter.co.uk/
An official newspaper of the European Union
http://w.moreover.com/
A link to most of the English speaking newspapers around
the world
http://www.china-biz.org/China_Page.htm=China

http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/china/pro-









economy.htm. = Japan