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African-sourced online news aggregator
AllAfrica
Type of site
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Owner
| AllAfrica Global Media
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URL
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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.
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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.
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.
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It has the contents of 127 contemporary African newspapers, and news feeds from several hundred organizations internationally.
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It maintains a searchable 400,000-item archive dating back to 1997.
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The Executive Chair of AllAfrica Global Media is
Amadou Mahtar Ba
.
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