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A ce site, on peut lire les actualités sur l'éducation dans la région de l'Océan Indien et suivre les liens aux sites des universités et des autres institutions des pays de la région.

A searchable database for companies and industries in South Africa, parts of southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean islands.

This site includes links to country profiles, information on banking, online trade directories for some countries, and many other links with an emphasis on business and economic information. "COMESA exists 'as 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'. With its 19 member states and population of 300 million it forms a major integrated trading block."

"...initiated in 1999 as a response to the El-Niño related mass bleaching and mortality of corals in the Indian Ocean in 1998. It is a non-profit research organization."
--See especially: Outputs and Results (Publications)

Un site web général; avec des liens aux autres sites francophones dans la série "Ile en île". Voir aussi une petite bibliographie sur les littératures de l'Océan Indien (1995).

"Malagasy Nature est une revue publiée par l'Association Vahatra concernant certains aspects de l'histoire naturelle de Madagascar et des îles voisines (Comores, Mascareignes et Seychelles). La revue publie des contributions scientifiques originales en anglais et en français concernant les animaux, les plantes, l'écologie, la conservation, la biogéographie, systématique et la paléontologie."

"... in the Velondriake Marine Protected Area of southwest Madagascar. The project’s aims are to investigate diachronic human-environment dynamics and refine our understanding of the region’s settlement history by leveraging multiple scientific techniques and the collective historical and socio-ecological knowledge base of Velondriake’s living communities."

"[First signed in 1985, entered into force in 1996]...a partnership between governments, civil society and the private sector, working towards a prosperous Western Indian Ocean Region with healthy rivers, coasts and oceans."
--See: Current and recent news
--See also: UNEP-Nairobi Convention site ; and, especially: Newsletters

A multi-media web site, with bibliography, essays, images, web links, and videos. "Over the course of nearly 20 centuries, millions of East Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and its several seas and adjoining bodies of water in their journey to distant lands, from Arabia and Iraq to India and Sri Lanka."

"...the first comprehensive regional synthesis to provide insights into the enormous economic potential around the WIO, the consequential demand for marine ecosystem goods and services to match the increasing human population, the pace and scale of environmental changes taking place in the region and the opportunities to avoid serious degradation in one of the world’s unique and highly biodiverse oceans."

General information on a wide variety of events and links to related websites. Plus, information from past festivals. "ZIFF is a non-profit organisation based in Zanzibar [founded in 1997] which aims to promote film, music and arts from the Dhow Countries (African Continent, Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan and the islands of the Indian Ocean). The organisation is working throughout the year and seeks to include people from all sectors of society, with special programmes for women, children and people in rural areas."