| Reconciliation Processes in Africa: Media and News Sources |
| This collection of Internet resources includes links to selected newspaper articles and other media sources providing access to media reports on reconciliation processes in the African countries Although selective, inclusion of a site by no means constitutes
endorsement by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Every source listed here was successfully tested before being added to the list. Users, however, should be aware that a successful connection may sometimes require several attempts.
For additional research and bibliographic materials on reconciliation processes in African countries consult the Library's online catalog.
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| ACTION FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (http://www.actsa.org/Angola/apm/) |
| Links to Angola Peace Monitor. “Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) campaigns with the people of Southern Africa as they strive to build a better future. Working for peace, democracy and development across the region, ACTSA is the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement. ACTSA influences decision-makers in Britain and Europe on policies that affect Southern Africa. It keeps the region in the public and political spotlight through lobbying, publication of reports and briefings and media work.”
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| AFRICAN CENTRE FOR THE CONSTRUCTIVE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES (ACCORD) (http://www.accord.org.za/web/home.htm) |
| ACCORD is an international civil-society organization working throughout Africa to bring appropriate African solutions to the challenges posed by conflict on our continent.”
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| AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE (AFP) (http://www.afp.com/home/) |
| AFP offer news stories via an email service. Available In English, French, German, Spanish
and Portugese. |
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| ALL AFRICA NEWS (http://allafrica.com/) |
| Site provides regularly updated news reports on West African countries, from Africa's leading newspapers, magazines and news agencies. |
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| BEYOND INTRACTABILITY (http://www.beyondintractability.org/iweb/) |
| Website provides access to articles, interviews, analysis on current events and a large database of references on conflict resolution strategies.
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| CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE AND RECONCILIATION (http://www.csvr.org.za/projects.htm) |
| The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), a multi-disciplinary South African non-governmental organization, dedicated since its inception in 1989 to making a meaningful contribution to peaceful and fundamental transformation in South Africa, and the Southern African region, operates in the following program areas: criminal justice, gender, peace building, transition and reconciliation, victim empowerment, and youth violence prevention.
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| CENTRE NATIONALE D’APUI AU DÉVELOPPEMENT ET À LA PARTICIPATION POPULAIRE (CENADEP)
(http://www.cenadep.net/) |
| CENADEP was founded in 2000. Its objectives are: “Promouvoir les possibilités d’expression démocratique et de participation des populations rurales et urbaines, et renforcer leur capacité à revendiquer ou à imposer une alternative de développement face à la dégradation politique, économique et sociale. - Renforcer la Société Civile en impliquant les véritables structures populaires organisées de la base au niveau national pour être à même de participer aux transformations sociales nécessaires.- Renforcer les capacités d’auto-organisation sociale et économique des populations urbaines à travers des outils adaptés aux défis posés par l’urbanisation galopante et les problèmes sociaux gigantesques qu‘elle entraîne.”
Text is in French.
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| CLUB - K: CLUBE DOS ANGOLANOS NO EXTERIOR (http://www.club-k.net/XP/index.php) |
| For Angolans abroad, offers chat, a photo-album, national and international news articles, information on culture and music. Text is in Portuguese.
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| ENDNOTES- to - Sustaining the Peace in Angola: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration, by João Gomes and Imogen Parsons
(http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No83/Notes.html) |
| Bibliography cited on-line separately from the article published in Monograph, no. 83, April 2003. |
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| The FINAL CALL (http://www.inithebabeandsuckling.com/Mistake.html) |
| This article indicates the healing process taking place between Ethiopia and Italy when the Italian president paid an official visit to Ethiopia in 1997. The President of Italy officially announced the invasion by Italy of Ethiopia in 1936 was a mistake. The return of the obelisk taken by the Italians during the occupation is mentioned.
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| INFORMATION FOR JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION (http://www.ijr.org.za/videos.html) |
| “The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation was launched in May 2000 and is self-consciously located in post-TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) South Africa. The Institute is committed to using the insights generated through its work in South Africa to engage in dialogue with other African countries.”
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| INTEGRATED REGIONAL INFORMATION NETWORK (IRIN) (http://www.irinnews.org/aboutirin.asp) |
| IRIN is a ten year old news service that is a part the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA) which reports on humanitarian and peace building issues in the African countries.
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| INTEGRATED REGIONAL INFORMATION NETWORK (IRIN) (http://www.reliefweb.int/IRIN) |
| IRIN, which is a part of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), features a range of regularly updated news stories and reports on West African
countries. |
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| INTER PRESS SERVICE (IPS) (http://www.ips.org) |
| An alternative news agency, IPS produces and gathers alternative and analytical articles on social, political, economic, political, cultural, and women-specific issues from all over the world. IPS’s e-zine on gender and human rights, Shaan, is produced in cooperation with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
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| INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (http://www.icrc.org/) |
| “An independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed violence.” This site is in multiple languages and provides information, publications, databases and more.
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| INTERVIEWS: VUSI MAHLASELI (http://www.amandla.com/movie/interviews.php?iid=5) |
| One of several interviews on April 1, 2000, about the power of song and reconciliation, from musicians in Lee Hirsch's debut feature documentary, AMANDLA! A REVOLUTION IN FOUR PART HARMONY. The film covers 50 years of South African history in which “song played an integral part in provoking social change under the apartheid rule. “
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| IRIN NEWS.ORG (http://www.irinnews.org/Homepage.aspHomepage.asp) |
| The Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). IRIN, “ born out of the 1994 crisis in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, pioneered the use of e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa, cheaply and efficiently. Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely, strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation and propaganda.”
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| KM E-NEWSLETTER (http://www.km-net.org/e-news/2005/feb05/feb20.htm) |
| The Kacoke Madit (KM) “a non-profit making forum dedicated to identifying and implementing practical initiatives to end the armed conflict in northern Uganda by peaceful means. It seeks to promote peace-building, reconciliation and equitable development efforts aimed at ensuring sustainable peace and prosperity ... This e-newsletter is an advocacy to support KM's work for peace in northern Uganda. KM uses this e-newsletter to tell others about its work, events, publications, and concerns. We will also endeavor to monitor the statements and the actions of the main parties to the conflict, the government of Uganda and the LRA/M, as well other key parties with particular emphasis on developments related to or having implications for the conflict in Northern Uganda. ... The e-newsletter is open to any organisation committed to this goal. You can use this e-newsletter to tell others about your work, events, publications, and concerns.”
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| KUBATANA.NET (http://www.kubatana.net/index.htm) |
| The NGO Network Alliance Project - an online community for Zimbabwean activists. The Project aims to improve the accessibility of human rights and civic information in Zimbabwe. |
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| LONG NIGHT’S JOURNEY INTO DAY: SOUTH AFRICA’S SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
(http://www.irisfilms.org/longnight/ln%5Fhistory.htm) |
| Received nominations and awards including the Sundance Film Festival 2000 Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.
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| MINISTRY OF INFORMATION OF ETHIOPIA (http://www.moinfo.gov.et) |
| This website is managed by the Ethiopian government. It has searchable articles
which relate to reconciliation and peaceful settlement of disputes. News of peace and reconciliation may be accessed either in Amharic or in the English language.
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| NIGERIA MEDIA MONITOR (http://www.kilima.com/mediamonitor) |
| “Produced by the International Journalism Centre in Lagos, Nigeria, this site provides a weekly news update of events in Nigeria, and information on the freedom of the press”.
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| NIGERIA.COM (http://www.nigeria.com) |
| Site provides news and also offers an e-mail news group.
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| ONEWORLD NEWS (http://www.oneworld.net) |
| “This UK-based news service, in partnership with numerous NGO's, working together for human rights and sustainable development, has a large number of recent reports on Nigeria”.
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| THE PERSPECTIVE (http://www.theperspective.org) |
| A publication of the Liberian Democratic Future, “THE PERSPECTIVE confronts the issues head on by concentrating on telling the truth, exposing the root causes, underlining contributing factors and identifying the class divisions which are the undercurrent of the various problems in Liberia”.
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| RETURNING HOME TO A NORMAL LIFE? THE PLIGHT OF DISPLACED ANGOLANS, by Andrea Lari. (http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/papers/85/Paper85.htm) |
| Article appears in the Institute for Security Studies, Occasional Paper 85, February 2004.
“As the first successful attempt made by Angolans to end the conflict themselves, the ceasefire fixed the starting point for the urgent addressing of a series of military, political and humanitarian priorities. In fact, it contributed to the rebuilding of confidence amongst the 4.1 million internally displaced persons (IDP’s), 3 [million] at that time living in camps or scattered around urban areas throughout the country, and 450,000 refugees living in the neighbouring countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Namibia. The millions of displaced Angolans represent important political and economic elements in the development and implementation by the government of reconstruction and regeneration policies throughout the country.
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| SOLIDARITÉ SOCIALISTE : FORMATION COOPÉRATION & DÉVELOPPEMENT (http://www.solsoc.be) |
| Links to electronic journals and to NGO’s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Text is in French. |
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| The STATE OF ERITREA: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (http://www.shabait.com) |
| This is the official website of the Eritrean government. It has several searchable articles pertinent to the issues of peace and reconciliation with Ethiopia, the Sudan and Yemen. This site contains articles in the Tigrina language also. Latest issues of local newspapers may also be accessed.
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| SUSTAINING THE PEACE IN ANGOLA: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration, by João Gomes Porto and Imogen Parsons (http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No83/Contents.html) |
| SUSTAINING THE PEACE IN ANGOLA: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration, by João Gomes Porto and Imogen Parsons
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| UBU AND THE TRUTH COMMISSION (http://www.handspringpuppet.co.za/html/ubu.html) |
| “combines puppetry, performance by live actors, music, animation and documentary footage. The play is based on the hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and on a 19th century licentious slob - Ubu Roi - created in 1888 by the French playwright, Alfred Jarry....Jane Taylor wrote the script, which includes original testimony from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's hearings.”
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