From Ben.Parker@tt.sasa.unep.no Tue Jun 20 00:07:37 1995 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t t] [nil "" "20" "June" "1995" "10:04:28" "+0300" "Ben Parker" "Ben.Parker@tt.sasa.unep.no" nil "149" "Horn of Africa Internet Resources Guide Version 0.41" "^From:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil] nil) Message-Id: <4bd_9506201005@sasa.unep.no> From: Ben.Parker@tt.sasa.unep.no (Ben Parker) Date: 20 Jun 95 10:04:28 +0300 Subject: Horn of Africa Internet Resources Guide Version 0.41 To: randy@psg.com --------------------------- H O R N O F A F R I C A --------------------------- INTERNET RESOURCES Version 0.4 - June 15 1995 Prepared by Ben Parker in Nairobi, Kenya. Special thanks to Art McGee 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 --- o The Horn of Africa Bulletin. A bimonthly press review published in Sweden by the Life and Peace Institute. Contact enelson@nn.apc.org. o InterAfrica Group NGO Networking Service. Monthly round-up on regional issues. Contact IAG@padis.gn.apc.org o 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 o North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ). Contact andy@cais.com. --- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- This compilation (c) Ben Parker, 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------- .