africa Guide
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African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States
Reports on the work of the ICP, including treaties and agreements
AllAfrica.com
News from a variety of African countries and sources - Yale access via Westlaw
vLex Global
World-wide legal database containing legislation, jurisprudence, commentary, forms, legal news, and more from many countries (extensiveness of each collection varies) including Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Chile (Search in English or the vernacular; materials in the vernacular with some translation capabilities) (Yale access only).
Africa Action
The oldest human rights organization focused exclusively on Africa. Find a variety of documents and positions papers from the oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs whose mission is to change U.S.-Africa relations to promote political, economic and social justice in Africa.
African Human Rights Resource Center
Find African human rights instruments and related documents from the University of Minnesota Human Rights library
African International Courts and Tribunals
For each international court or tribunal substantially touching Africa, find an overview of the court, any recent news, the basic documents, a selected bibliography, biographies of its judges, and related jurisprudence from member states
African Legal Affairs
This website is maintained by the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (Organisation pour l'Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires -- OHADA). It features OHADA's activities as well as provides documentation on this issue. This website is in French (English version is under construction).
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
COMESA aims to turn Eastern and Southern Africa into a "fully integrated, internationally competitive regional economic community with high standards of living for all its people ready to merge into an African Economic Community"
