Useful sources about Africa

The African Elections Database provides data on elections in sub-Saharan Africa, sourced from public information. It is unclear whether the data is kept updated, as recent electoral changes in countries such as Ethiopia and South Africa are not included. It does, however, provide historical data.

A research report by the US Law Library of Congress that examines the regulatory frameworks on wildlife trafficking and poaching in seven African countries: Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and the Central African Republic. The report also discusses the laws that criminalise poaching and trafficking in wildlife, the penalties imposed for these crimes, and the state institutions tasked with enforcing the laws.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) publishes State of Conservation reports based on annual recommendations to the World Heritage Committee. The reports assessed 61 natural and mixed UNESCO World Heritage sites in 2016. Sixteen African countries were included.

The Great Elephant Census (GEC) is an Africa-wide count funded by Paul G Allen and aimed at gaining a better understanding of elephant numbers across the continent through a large aerial survey of African wildlife.

The Global Gender Gap Report compares 144 countries in their quest towards gender parity. It is published annually by the World Economic Forum. The 2018 report used contextualised data through a collaboration with LinkedIn.

UN Women’s global database on violence against women contains African country level information such as the prevalence of data in different forms, countries’ rankings on gender equality indexes and various reports submitted by UN human rights associations.

A World Bank report that aims to reframe fallacies related to African agriculture, specifically misquoted data on women working in the agriculture sector. It uses data from the Living Standards Measurement Study (Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative) (LSMS-ISA).