Global Connections:
Africa

Mission Giving

• Africa Famine Relief: How UMCOR is responding to the crisis
• Hope for the Children of Africa: Bishops' Appeal
• United Methodist Women's Mission Outreach in Africa: Map with links to more info about mission in specific regions and countries

• Africa Church Growth and Development
• Children's Ministries
• Comprehensive Community-Based Primary Health Care
• East Africa Annual Conference Advance Projects
• Hunger and Development
• Programs with Refugees and Displaced Children
• Refugee Programs
  For more links to Advance Projects, refer to a specific country below.

News & Features

• A Generation of Hope: The inspiring documentary of how Zimbabwe's children fight to keep their families together, and struggle to make a future for themselves.
• Dr. Nugent Reflects on Cabinet Visit to Africa Trip, UMNS
• Church Agency Reaches out to Africa via Radio, UMNS
• Archived News 1997-2000
• For even more mission news from Africa, visit the following links.

African Countries

• Algeria
• Angola
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Democratic Republic
  of the Congo

• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda

• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Togo
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

GBGM Links & Resources

• AIDS in Africa: Heartbreak and Hope: Facts and figures and how the United Methodist church is in mission
• A Call to Care: Welcoming African Refugees
  Home Page and RealVideo_®
• Missionaries serving in Africa
• Mission Stories from Africa
• Photos from Africa
• Refugees and Global Migration: UMCOR's page dedicated to relief for refugees, migrants, and displaced people
• Search Engines and Directories serving Africa

Other Links & Resources

• Africa Data Distribution Service (USAID)
• Africa Fund works for a positive U.S. policy towards Africa and supports human rights, democracy and development
• Africa News Online from allAfrica.com
• Newsafrica.com
• African Economic Concerns page on the General Board of Church and Society site
• African Organizations, Institutes, and Associations Links List (University of Pennsylvania)
• BBC News: Africa and the Middle East
  Available in Arabic, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Somali, Hausa, Portuguese, and French
• Africa University Home Page
• Channel Africa: A source of reliable information about Africa in Chibemba, Chinyanja, English, French, Portuguese, Shona, Silozi, Swahili
• Christian Network Information Service
• Human Rights Watch Africa page
• Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), a unit of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Up-to-date e-mail bulletins available in both English and French
• Links to African Web Sites by Country (University of Pennsylvania)
• Methodist Church of Southern Africa
• OneWorld News: African Focus
• United Nations High Commission on Refugees
• Washington Office on Africa (WOA) is a church-sponsored organization working toward a just American policy toward Africa