Horn of Africa Internet Resource Guide version 0.4

INTERNET RESOURCES

Version 0.4 - June 2 1995

Prepared by Ben Parker <ben.parker@sasa.unep.no> in Nairobi, Kenya. Special thanks to Art McGee <amcgee@netcom.com> for his exhaustive African-related resource lists. Also to joseph.roberts@m.cc.utah.edu for his Middle East-North Africa Internet Resources Guide.

Any corrections, additions or clarifications welcome.

The countries of the Horn of Africa for the purposes of this document are as follows:

Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Somalia (including Somaliland)
Sudan

PART 1: Regional Resources

• Publications ---
  • The Horn of Africa Bulletin. A bimonthly press review published in Sweden by the Life and Peace Institute. Contact enelson@nn.apc.org.
  • InterAfrica Group NGO Networking Service. Monthly round-up on regional issues. Contact IAG@padis.gn.apc.org
  • Indian Ocean Newsletter sometimes available on AFRICA-N. Contact: arm@utoronto.bitnet
• Mailing Lists ---

        o  AFRICA.HORN is an APC conference shared within the APC community,
        including most FIDO hosts in the region. Contact: riff@web.apc.org.
        Relevant postings can be sent to conf:africa.horn@igc.apc.org.
        o  Oromo-Net is a mailing list devoted to the Oromo people who live
        mainly, but not exclusively in Ethiopia. Contact makobili@netcom.com.
        o  Ge'ez is a ancient language and an alphabet used for some of the
        languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Contact geez-request@eritrea.org
        [Down as of 29 April 95]

• WWW resources ---

  I have no intention of listing all Web pages that might be relevant, but here are four that will lead to others:

        o  University of Pennsylvania African Studies Web (various sections):
        http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
        o  The Hornet - eclectic selection of material from the Addis BBS:
        http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Hornet
        /menu_Hornet.html
        o  Abyssinia Cyberspace Gateway:
        http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmulholl/acg.html
        o  Greater Horn Information Exchange
        http://www.intac.com/PubService/rwanda/HORN/

• IRC channels ---

There appear to be IRC channels called #ethiopia and #eritrea.

PART 2: Country Specific Resources

• Djibouti ---

  [e-mail]

        o  Packet Switching available (DJIPAC). No e-mail information
        available, but French Minitel service reportedly active in some way.

• Eritrea ---

  [e-mail]

o FIDOnet node 5:7551/1 - Eritrean Information Systems Agency - contact:

        Sewit_Bocresion@eisa.gn.apc.org
        o  FIDOnet node 5:7551/2 - Adal Computer Systems. Contact:
        Abubaker_Beshir@adal.gn.apc.org.
        Adal also runs a BBS on +291 1 113096
        o  Healthnet node: sysop@eri.healthnet.org

        [Publications]
        o  Eritrea Profile: eritrea_profile@adal.gn.apc.org

        [Mailing Lists]
        o  Dehai/EDIN - contact dehai-admin@thames.stanford.edu
        a suite of mailing lists on communications, constitution, etc
        o  Eritrea-L - contact info@eritrea.org or
        listserv@relay.doit.wisc.edu.

• Ethiopia ---

  [e-mail]

o FIDOnet node 5:751/1 - Panafrican Documentation and Information System (part

        of the UN Economic Commission for Africa). Approx 300 users not only
        in Addis Ababa. Contact: Lishan.Adam@padis.gn.apc.org
        o  5:751/2 - The Hornet - Horn of Africa related dial up BBS including
        Internet mailing lists, file archives, etc. Approx 150 users. Call
        +2511 514534. Contact ben.parker@unep.no.
        o Healthnet node. Contact khundie@eth.healthnet.org

        [Publications]
        o  ETHIOPIA - by "Barry Gossa" in Cairo. Seems to have disappeared.
        Any further information gratefully received.
        o Variety Column - distributed by adisaba@powergrid.electriciti.com

        [Mailing lists]
        o  EEDN - formerly known as Cleo. contact EEDN-postmaster@rpi.edu
        o  Ethiolist - a suite of lists: general, politics, sports, sciences
        and history. contact ethiolist-request@netcom.com or txt4@netcom.com
        o  Pol.Ethiopia - Mainly Ethiopian government announcements.
        Contact listserv@wn.apc.org send a message:
        SUBSCRIBE POL.ETHIOPIA Your Name

• Somalia and Somaliland ---

  [e-mail] None at present. Possible Healthnet node in near future.

        [Publications]
        Somalia News Update. Excellent e-publication. Contact
        bernhard.helander@antro.uu.se

        [Mailing Lists]
        o  Somalia Association for Peace and Democracy. Mail
majordomo@igc.apc.org, body subscribe sapd-somalia.
        o  Usenet newsgroup: soc.culture.somalia

• Sudan ---

  [e-mail] Healthnet node: sysop@sud.healthnet.org

        [Publications]
        o  Sudan News and Views. Contact yasin@gn.apc.org
        o  Also sudanupdate@gn.apc.org.
        o  Scottish Churches Sudan Group Newsletter. Contact
        mam@festival.edinburgh.ac.uk
        o  Sudan Info - a bilingual information leaflet from the
        Canadian Sudan Action Group. Contact emi@web.apc.org
        [Mailing Lists]
        o Sudan InfoNet. Contact Bill Lowrey on <73124.367@compuserve.com>
        o Sudan-L. Contact listserv@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu
        o Sudan-Cush. Send mail to Sudan-Cush-Request@helsinki.fi
        o Sudanese. Send mail to elgasim@crsa.bu.edu

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