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• International Rivers Network (IRN)
  This page describes IRN's campaigns in Okavango, Eupupa, Lesotho, Bujugali among others.  Provides information on rivers and dams.

• Woodrow Wilson Environmental Change and Security Project
  ECSP is an information clearinghouse on the views, activities and policy initiatives falling under the rubric of "environment, population and security." 

Nile River

• Nile Basin Water Resources Project
  This is a joint effort between Nile Basin countries and participating governments to establish ways to utilize water resources and protect the environment surrounding the Nile basin.  The site describes current activities in each of the participating countries (Burundi, D.R. Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda).
• FAO of the United Nations
  FAO has been working on the monitoring, forecasting and simulation of the Nile River (MFS) project since 1990 to improve operations of the High Aswan Dam that controls the flow of the Nile in Egypt.

Okavango Delta

• OKACOM:  Permanent Okavango River Basin Commission
  This commission between Angola Botswana and Namibia advises governments on how to coordinate the use of the basin's water resources.

Greater Horn of Africa Initiatives

• Breaking the Cycle of Dispair: President Clinton's Initiative on the Horn of Africa
  This document describes challenges to the Greater Horn of Africa and proposals for change.
• Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) Project
  This site contains sattelite maps for food security in the Horn of Africa, showing cropland use, population, soil suitability for agriculture, vegetation indices etc.
• Greater Horn Information Exchange
  GHIE provides site reports, fact sheets, activity summaries, datasets, scientific papers, analyses, geographic and thematic maps, situation reports as well as datasets.

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