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The website features AfricaFocus bulletin...offering analysis and "progressive advocacy" on African issues; plus news feeds from BBC and AllAfrica.Com.

The website includes galleries of documents, photographs, posters, audio and video files, and an extensive archives list for the U.S. "[The project] seeks to preserve for history the record of activities of U.S. organizations and individuals that supported African struggles for freedom and had a significant collective impact on U.S. policy during the period 1950-1994."

"Founded in 1981 by Ethiopian refugees to give a helping hand to other newcomers, today African Services is a multiservice agency based in Harlem and dedicated to assisting immigrants, refugees and asylees from across the African Diaspora."

"Founded in 1977, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) is a group of scholars and students of Africa dedicated to: formulating alternative analyses of Africa and U.S. government policy, developing communication and action networks between the peoples and scholars of Africa and the United States, and mobilizing support in the United States on critical, current issues related to Africa."

"...a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world...The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center promotes dynamic geopolitical partnerships with African states and helps redirect US and European policy priorities toward strengthening security and bolstering economic growth and prosperity on the continent."

News, event information, and reports from this US-based think tank, with partners in Africa. "...brings together African scholars to provide policymakers with high-quality research, expertise and innovative solutions that promote Africa's economic development."

--See also: Africa in Focus (blog posts)

--Foresight Africa 2022. 126 pages in PDF format.

--"A National Strategy for Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Case of South Africa." by Cyril Ramaphosa. January 10, 2020. Part of: Foresight Africa: Top priorities for the continent 2020-2030.

The website features working papers, reports, essays, and news about center activities. "[Founded in 2001 by Edward W. Scott, Jr., C. Fred Bergsten, and Nancy Birdsall] CGD is an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community."

Search especially under "Obtaining Data" for reports on individual countries or the Sub Saharan Africa region.

This website features current news, editorials, policy arguments, and campaign information by an advocacy group in Washington, DC...which focuses on US foreign policy towards "conflict areas" in Africa, especially Darfur and Southern Sudan, Eastern Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Northern Uganda, Chad, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.
--See especially: Enough Project publications

This site offers downloadable research papers and project reports on various African countries, plus country-specific links to environmental law and general information. "...Partnering with activist African NGOs, ELI drafts and advances pragmatic and effective environmental laws and policies, analyzes and identifies options to improve the implementation of existing environmental law, and builds the capacity of local institutions and citizens in Africa to carry out these tasks independently."

A frequently-updated archive of UN documents and policy discussion papers on UN policies toward Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and Liberia. "A group of citizens from several countries founded the Global Policy Forum in December 1993 to monitor global policy making at the United Nations."

A website offering current news about HIV/AIDS in African countries, statistical summaries for Africa in general and for individual countries and contact information about organizations working on HIV/AIDS, and related links.

The website of this consultancy organization includes reports on elections and other aspects of democratic participation and institution building; some regional program web pages also include reports and videos in French or Spanish. "Since our founding in 1987, IFES has worked with election assistance and democratic development in over 100 countries...Every IFES project team partners with local organizations, and every project is staffed by local personnel."

"In keeping with the Development Fund for Africa (DFA) legislation, and funded by a grant from the AID Africa Bureau, the Africa Liaison Project fosters communication, cooperation and collaboration on development initiatives in Africa among US PVOs, African NGOs and AID. Through case-study workshops and briefings, it addresses issues such as: PVO and NGO capacity building, gender analysis, program design and evaluation, PVO/NGO-private sector partnerships and the impact of AIDS on sustainable development. Annually, 15-20 leaders of African NGO consortia and networks are invited to Washington, DC for one week to participate in the InterAction Forum."

"...uses film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony's rebel war and restore Lord's Resistance Army-affected communities in central Africa to peace and prosperity."
--See also: LRA Crisis Tracker below

"The Lawyers’ Committee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, formed in 1963...The principle mission is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities."
-- See especially: Newsroom

"...a real-time mapping platform and data collection system created to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to the atrocities of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Using information sourced from Invisible Children’s Early Warning Radio Network, UN agencies, and local NGOs, this tool allows for better response from governments, policy-makers, and humanitarian organizations."
--See also: Kony2012: Invisible Children: a campaign site

"[Founded in 2001]...an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at local, national, and international levels."

Consultancy and other activity reports. "The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. Calling on a global network of volunteer experts, NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions."

"...a one-year leadership development and civic engagement program designed to train, support, and connect emerging African leaders working to create positive change in their communities." 

--See also: "About" the Obama Foundation

An advocacy web site critical of the Africa Growth & Opportunity Act of 1998. See also, the general home page for Public Citizen, founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader.

"To address the needs and rights of persons in forced or voluntary migration worldwide by advancing fair and humane public policy, facilitating and providing direct professional services, and promoting the full participation of migrants in community life."

Search the archive of articles and videotaped events on US-Africa policy and other Africa-related issues. 

--See also, the program blog: Africa Up Close

General information about the "Witness" program, a video archive catalog, and multi-media, online feature stories which include some on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and, South Africa.