The State Department web site below is a permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001.  Please see www.state.gov for material released since President George W. Bush took office on that date.  This site is not updated so external links may no longer function.  Contact us with any questions about finding information. NOTE: External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein.

Maps, Data and Weather

1. Airstrip and Village Maps: Often the most difficult to obtain, these hand drawn maps by relief workers are very valuable. Usually the only available detailed maps of these locations, they provide information on airstrip locations, water resources, village hazards and more. If you have additional information or maps, please share them. What you know may help the next humanitarian relief organization going into the same area.
2. University of Texas Collection. The University of Texas has posted on its web site city maps of Wau, Malakal, Juba, and Khartoum, in addition to the full-scale country map. This has been done in cooperation with Sudan Online. They also intend to prepare a bibliography of maps of Sudan for the use of relief workers. See the following images on their site. (Note: Many of the images at this site are extremely large and require a significant amount of RAM.)

• Sudan (Shaded Relief) CIA 1994 (280K)
• Juba - original scale 1:2 million Portion of U.S. Defense Mapping Agency Series 2201, Sheet 20 1980 (970K)
• Malakal - original scale 1:2,000,000 Portion of U.S. Army Map Service Series 2201, Sheet 20 1980 (808K)
• Wau ö original scale 1:2,000,000 Portion of U.S. Army Map Service Series 2201, Sheet 19 1965 (1MB)

1. ReliefWeb: Maps and Data; often the best on the Internet
2. ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency): Several maps from 1996 and information on relief sites from 1997 and 1999.
3. AICF: Maps of Labone region (August 1996). Also see map of Gulu, Uganda, a support facility for these operations.
4. Library of Congress Bibliography of Sudan Maps: A through D Maps; E through I Maps; J through R Maps; S maps; T though Z Maps. This bibliography was as a reference aid to relief workers. Its existence is a reminder that excellent, development- and relief-relevant maps often reside in major national collections. Every map in the bibliography is available at the Library of Congress.
5. Satellite Images of South Sudan: These are not easy to come by and many are more useful to staffs researching agricultural and water patterns. Having said that, humanitarian relief agencies operating in Sudan may wish to contact the EROS user support office at 605-594-6116 or the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DAAC at 301-614-5341.

Index of Information Sites

• For daily updates on Sudan situation, see ReliefWeb's Latest News Site.
• InterAction: InterAction represents over 150 private voluntary organizations in the United States and elsewhere. They were also the first NGO organization to support the ReliefWeb project.
• World Health Organization: Regional Office for Africa.
• ARC (American Refugee Committee)
• IMC: The International Medical Corps is one of the finest medical NGOs in operation in South Sudan.
• USAID Horn of Africa Briefing on Sudan.
• USAID Famine Early Warning: USAID is an independent federal government agency under the Secretary of State that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States.
• Washington Post: Interactive web-site on the 1999 Dinka-Nuer Peace Conference.
• University of Pennsylvania: Sudan page with many links.

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