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Equatorial Guinea SearchesHere a list of sites were you can expect to find specific information about Equatorial Guinea when you search their database on the word "Equatorial Guinea": UNIONS is the United Nations International Organizations Network Search. Here you can search within all the UN-system, including sub-organizations. Expect to find too much documents, reports, articles, etc. about Equatorial Guinea. ECA-search - (UN.org.) In the database of the Economic Commission for Africa you might find some country-specific information about development. They also are quite good on gender issues. FAO-search - (UN-org.) Their database gives you lots of articles and reports about livestock and agriculture in Equatorial Guinea. Tons of free information! ILO-search - (UN-org.) Their database might find you some reports about working conditions in Equatorial Guinea, although there is little African country-specific information. Infonation is a UN statistics service. Choose country specific data from their huge and updated database. All countries are represented with data from the fields geography, economy, population and social indicators. You can compare data from up to seven countries. Excellent tool! UNDP-search - (UN-org.) You will find a solid amount of documents and reports about development in Equatorial Guinea in their database. UNESCO-search - (UN-org.) Their database contains loads of document related to education, science and culture and related items in Equatorial Guinea. WHO-search - (UN-org.) You'll find quit a few documents and reports about health issues in Equatorial Guinea and the region doing a search in their database. WTO-search - In the database of the World Trade Organization you'll find quit a few country-specific documents about trade, subsidies, development, etc. in Equatorial Guinea. Write "Equatorial Guinea" in the "Document Title" bar. WoYaa! is a search engine in French and English with links to quite a few sites in French-speaking Africa. Not updated since 1998 (?) and many bad connections. Yahoo-search - Yahoo helps you find websites related to Equatorial Guinea, although you'll have no idea what you'll find clicking their links...
Newspapers & PressHere, you'll find links to Equatorial Guinean and non-Equatorial Guinean newspapers and news agencies regularly writing about Equatorial Guinea, international press in general and other facilitators of news about Equatorial Guinea.
The Press in Equatorial Guinea
Press reporting about Equatorial GuineaAFP - Equatorial Guinea (French news agency) is probably the most regular provider of news from Equatorial Guinea, with several articles a week. All in French but still recommended. afrol Equatorial Guinea News features articles about Equatorial Guinea published in afrol.com this year. The most regularly updated English spoken site on Equatorial Guinean news. Africa Confidential is a bisemanal journal on Africa. They let you enter their database on Equatorial Guinea of past headlines, which has some basic facts and news about Equatorial Guinea. AllAfrica (former AfricaNews) is a commercial network handling the distribution of reporting from more than 40 African news organizations and provides daily news from the African continent for an American audience. You can also go directly to their Equatorial Guinea page, listing the latest news stories. IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Network) is a UN humanitarian information unit, covering news from all Africa. You can also go directly into their Equatorial Guinea archive, where articles from the last months about Equatorial Guinea figure. La Diaspora (Spanish) is the journal for and by exiled Guineans (around one quarter of the population). New edition every 2nd month. NewAfrica, Equatorial Guinea offers interesting information about Equatorial Guinean infrastructures, agriculture, business, environment, education, etc. One World News Service is an international news service with a special page for Equatorial Guinea. In English, but not too regularly updated. PANA (PanAfrican News Agency) has an expanding pool of correspondents continent wide and partnerships with 48 national news agencies and the largest news-gathering operation in Africa. No country pages, but daily updated news from all over Africa. Weather.com has a page about the weather in Equatorial Guinea.
International pressLe Monde, the leading French newspaper, has an ample international coverage (all in French). You can also go directly to their Africa page. The Africa and Middle East site of the BBC World Services offers updated news, articles and other media services on Africa. The Financial Times is one of the world's leading business newspapers with a global outlook. You can also go directly to their Middle East and Africa page. The Independent is an excellent British newspaper with a wide international coverage. You might want to go directly to their Africa page, where the latest articles about the continent are listed. The International Herald Tribune is a daily newspaper edited in Paris with a focus on news from all over the world. Published with The New York Times & The Washington Post. The New York Times is one of the most important US newspapers, having a relatively good international coverage, including an Africa page. Most international articles, however, are by AP or Reuters. The Washington Post is a prestigious US newspaper with an ample international coverage. You might want to go directly to their Africa page or Equatorial Guinea page, were the last articles from WP are listed. Times Internet Edition (UK) is the internet edition of the world's oldest daily newspaper. The sister paper, the Sunday Times Internet Edition has its own website. Relatively good international coverage.
News & Discussion GroupsAfrica Online Equatorial Guinea offers services like e-mail, chat, newsgroups. A lot of news too, and only in English. L'Afrique sur Internet is a website in French about everything what's happening on Internet in francophone Africa. List of links, forums, etc. NewAfrica has chats, besides offering lots of other services. Patricio Nbé Ondó has one of the most comprehensive sites on Guinea (in Spanish). There also exists a debate forum.
Government OfficesEmbassies and Representations in Foreign Countries: About Equatorial Guinean government, see also Politics and General Information, below.
OtherCities & TownsWeather.com has a page about the weather in Equatorial Guinea, with special information about some cities, like Bata, Luba and Malabo.
CompaniesThe Bioko Business Center specializes in assisting businessmen and women in Equatorial Guinea by providing services such as company registration.
CultureAfromix' web page to Equatorial Guinean music, groups and artists, with special pages on some Equatorial Guinean musicians. French and Spanish versions. The Ethnologue Database is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Index organizes languages according to language families and countries.
EconomyEquatorial Guinea Economic Development and Indicators is an annual NewAfrica country profile on their pages about African economy. They use the IMF as their primary source, which should guarantee for their quality. Mbendi Consultants' country profile on Equatorial Guinea concentrates on economical issues. Statistics on communications and information technology, etc. Planet Business-Equatorial Guinea offers interesting data of the country's economic situation for importers, exporters, distributors and traders.
EducationFamily Care Guinea Ecuatorial is a non-profit NGO aimed toward bettering the lives of the people in Guinea. Projects are within education and health. Web site in English, Spanish, French and German.
Environment/NatureThe Bioko Web Site is a site created and maintained by the Bioko Primate Protection Program (BiokoPR), a non-profit conservation organization based at Beaver College, USA. BiokoPR's conservation efforts are directed toward protecting the endangered primate species and overall biodiversity of the southern part of Bioko Island. Not updated. NewAfrica-Environment offers interesting information about the environment in Africa, among other subjects, and sometimes news about the environment in Equatorial Guinea.
General Information/Read about Equatorial GuineaAfrol Equatorial Guinea features a country
page (with an introduction to all there is about the country on
afrol), a country
profile with text and statistics and a history
of Equatorial Guinea. The Ethnologue Database is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Index organizes languages according to language families. The Spanish spoken website of the Basque publishing house Ikuska has pages on all African countries with relatively good statistical data and fuller information on ethnic groups. Infoplease.com contains a page about Equatorial Guinea with basic data of the country: history, geography, etc. NewAfrica Equatorial Guinea offers interesting information about Equatorial Guinean infrastructure, agriculture, business, environment, education, etc. Patricio Nbé Ondó has one of the most comprehensive sites on Guinea (in Spanish). He presents all the latest news articles from the world press, links, important documents, a forum and other Guinean resources. Recommended. The U.S.
government has several informative, though subjective, pages about most countries in
the world, including Equatorial Guinea, being regularly updated. Big
resources are used to produce and maintain these pages. The CIA.
annual Factbook 2000 is probably
the best and most updated collection of data on the web. You can order books about Equatorial Guinea on amazon.com's web page.
Human RightsThe Committee to Protect Journalists has a small, but interesting rapport about the situation of the press in Equatorial Guinea in 1997. The most informative site about human rights in Equatorial Guinea is the annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices Released by the U.S. State Department. Big, elaborated report about the state of human rights in Equatorial Guinea. Plataforma para la paz y derechos humanos en Guinea Ecuatorial (Platform for peace and human rights in Guinea) is a human rights NGO by exiled Guinean. The site presents the human rights situation in Equatorial Guinea (in Spanish). In the annual World Press Freedom Review looks at the the state of the media in 168 countries, like Equatorial Guinea, documenting press freedom violations. 1999.
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