AllAfrica

allAfrica is a website that aggregates and produces news primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture. It is owned by AllAfrica Global Media, a multi-media content service provider and the largest distributor of African news worldwide.^[1] The website operates from offices in Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Monrovia, Nairobi and Washington, D.C..^[2] AllAfrica is the successor to Africa News Service.

AllAfrica

Type of site	News website
Owner	AllAfrica Global Media
URL	allafrica.com

Its stories can be displayed by categories and subcategories such as country, region, and by news topic. In 2008, AllAfrica rolled out a comment board system. The website is available in both English and French.^[3]

It has the contents of 127 contemporary African newspapers, and news feeds from several hundred organizations internationally.^[4] It maintains a searchable 400,000-item archive dating back to 1997.^[3] The Executive Chair of AllAfrica Global Media is Amadou Mahtar Ba.^[5]

References

1. "Amadou Ba". International Journalism Festival. 30 April 2014.
2. "Who We Are - allAfrica.com". allafrica.com. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
3. "allAfrica.com - Databases". University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
4. "AllAfrica.com". KU Libraries. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
5. "Co-Chairs, Panelists and Deputies - Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment" (PDF). UN Women. March 10, 2016. p. 2. Amadou Mahtar Ba is a seasoned professional with wide experience in African and U.S. markets in the fields of media, governance, technology and innovation. He is Co- Founder and Executive Chair of AllAfrica Global Media, Inc.

External links

• Official website
• ReliefWeb archives of AllAfrica
• NAACP archives of AllAfrica (archived 27 September 2007)