General Websites

AllAfrica Global Media - largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide - obtain up-to-date info about specific issues in different parts of Africa

http://allafrica.com/

Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org/

Human Rights Watch - Africa

http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=africa

Global Issues in Africa – United Nations - Agriculture, Education, Environment, AIDS, Labour, Peacekeeping / Peacemaking

http://www.un.org/issues/gallery/Africa/introduction.htm

Africa Action:  Activism for Africa since 1953 - Campaigns - Stop Genocide in Darfur, End AIDS in Africa, Cancel African Debt and others

http://www.africaaction.org/

Africa – Photoscope – PBS - 5 contemporary photo essays on AIDS, conflict, urban Africa, environment & women

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/photoscope/index.html

Social Issues (AIDS, Modern day slavery, Malaria)

IRIN:  Humanitarian News and Analysis about Africa from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

http://www.irinnews.org/IRIN-Africa.aspx

War and Displacement:  Internally displaced persons and refugees - Children in War – International Committee of the Red Cross

http://www.icrc.org/eng/refugees_displaced_persons

Africa's Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations:  Children Affected by AIDS (Unicef August 2006)

http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Africas_Orphaned_and_Vulnerable_Generations_Children_Affected_by_AIDS.pdf

HIV and AIDS in Africa

http://www.avert.org/aids-hiv-africa.htm

AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa:  a looming threat to future generations - United Nations 2004

http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/06/story.asp?storyID=400

AIDS Children in Africa

http://www.aids-children.org/

The CNN Freedom Project Ending Modern-Day Slavery

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/04/modern-day-slavery-a-problem-that-cant-be-ignored/

Uncovering Mali’s Hidden Slavery – BBC News – Aug 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7576444.stm

2012 Humanitarian Action Report for Children – UNICEF - Critical Issues for Children and Women in more than 25 countries and territories beset by emergencies and crisis

http://www.unicef.ca/en/featured-reports/featured-report/2012-humanitarian-action-for-children

Canadian Red Cross – Africa - Red Cross Operations in Sierra Leone, Togo, Sudan

http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=942&tid=001

Malaria – Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa - 2006

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2286/

Malaria – World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/

Environmental / Resource Issues (Water crisis, drought, deforestation)

Africa:  The Water Crisis is Now - AllAfrica - July 4, 2012

http://allafrica.com/stories/201207050683.html

Africa's Growing Water Crisis - PBS Frontline/World - Asia and Africa:  Living on the Edge

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/africa705/history/africa.html

Water Crisis Looms in South Africa - National Geographic NewsWatch

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2010/11/05/water_crisis_looms_in_south_africa/

Dead in the Water – South Africa struggling to provide safe drinking water for the poor – CBC News Special

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/deadinthewater/africa.html

Water in Crisis - Spotlight on South Africa - The Water Project

http://thewaterproject.org/water-in-crisis-south-africa.php

Conservation of rainforests – African Cultural Centre

http://www.africanculturalcenter.org/3_3conservationefforts.html

Deforestation "faster in Africa" - BBC News (May 26, 2009)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8066871.stm

Political Issues

Conflicts in Africa - Global Issues

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/83/conflicts-in-africa

Children in War – International Committee of the Red Cross

http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/protected-persons/children/

Economic Issues (Fair trade, brain drain)

US, China Interests Compete in Sudan – Voice of America News.com

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/US-China-Interests-Compete-In-Sudan-104295273.html

Child Labour in Africa – International Labour Organization - 2005

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=child

Stop Child Labour Tour 2008

http://www.stopchildlabour.eu/africatour2008/img/africatour2008-finalreport.pdf

The World Bank and Africa

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,menuPK:258649~pagePK:158889~piPK:146815~theSitePK:258644,00.html

Fairtrade Africa - What is fair trade?  Benefits of fair trade.  Fair Trade standards...

http://www.fairtradeafrica.net/about-fairtrade/

Make Trade Fair – Starbucks and Ethiopia - Oxfam

http://www.oxfam.org/en/development/ethiopia-starbucks-campaign-anatomy-win

Brain drain and capacity building in Africa – The International Development Research Centre

http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/ArticleDetails.aspx?PublicationID=704

Brain drain in Africa – Network of African Science Academies

http://www.nationalacademies.org/includes/NASACbraindrain09.pdf