AllAfrica

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

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.

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 [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Amadou Ba" . International Journalism Festival . 30 April 2014.
  2. ^ "Who We Are - allAfrica.com" . allafrica.com . Retrieved 2024-05-20 .
  3. ^ a b "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.

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