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Welcome to the Africa Sources List project!

• The project aims to curate a list of reliable sources for African topics.

• The Botswana Gazette (https://thegazette.news/)
• Botswana Guardian Sun (https://guardiansun.co.bw/)
• Mmegi (https://www.mmegi.bw/)

• Cameroon Online (https://www.cameroononline.org/)
• Cameroon Tribune (https://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/)

• A Nação (https://www.anacao.cv/) (Portuguese)
• A Semana (https://www.asemana.publ.cv/) (Portuguese)

• Al Arabi (newspaper) (https://elarabielyoum.com/) (Arabic)
• Daily News Egypt (https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/)
• The Egyptian Gazette (https://egyptian-gazette.com/)
• Egypt Today (https://www.egypttoday.com/)

• Eswatini Observer (http://new.observer.org.sz/)
• Swaziland News (https://www.swazilandnews.co.za/)
• Times of Swaziland (http://www.times.co.sz/)

Digital news sources

• Addis Standard – Ethiopian monthly social, economic and political news magazine

• The Point (https://thepoint.gm/)

Digital news sources

• Parliament of Ghana -Parliament of Ghana
• Myjoyonline,Ghana - Myjoy Online,Ghana
• Citinewsroom, Ghana - Citi Newsroom, Ghana
• 3news Ghana - 3news Ghana
• Graphic Online Ghana - Graphic Online Ghana
• Ghana News Agency - Ghana News Agency
• Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation - Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation
• The Ghana Report - The Ghana Report

• The Standard (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/)
• Daily Nation ([1])
• Business Daily Africa ([2])
• Capital FM ([3])
• Citizen TV ([4]]

• The Analyst (https://analystliberiaonline.com/)

• Al-Houriya (https://elhourriya.net/)

Digital news sources

• Hespress.com (Arabic)
• Maghreb Arab Press - Moroccan Press Agency (Arabic, Berber, French)
• L'économiste - Economy news (French)
• Telquel - various news (French)
• Lakome website - Political news (Arabic)

YouTube Channels

• Medi1TV Channel (Arabic, French)
• Al Oula TV Channel (Arabic)
• Tamazight TV Channel (Berber)

• Club of Mozambique (https://clubofmozambique.com/)

• The Namibian (https://www.namibian.com.na/)

Digital news sources

• National Assembly of the Republic of Nigeria (bills, publications, votes)
• Premium Times (reliable newspaper with an emphasis on investigative journalism and anti-corruption)
• The Nation Nigeria– national paper
• Silverbird TV – national TV
• Punch NG– national paper
• Sun News Online– national paper
• The Guardian Nigeria – national paper
• The Vanguard – national paper
• Allure – pull out fashion magazine inside Sunday Vanguard (from http://www.vanguardngr.com)
• http://www.voice-online.co.uk – seems to be a British magazine but has significant coverage of Nigerian subjects

• Le Quotidien (https://lequotidien.sn/) (French)

• Seychelles Nation (https://www.nation.sc/)
• Seychelles News Agency (http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/)

Digital news sources

• Horseed Media, probably reliable per an RSN discussion.^[1]

News sources

Below is a list of news sources

• GroundUp - Non-profit online news paper with a focus on local journalism
• Moneyweb - Financial news source.
• Daily Maverick - Features lots of commentary and analysis so be alert for that. Otherwise found to be reliable. Has been accused of anti-EFF bias by the EFF due to its coverage of corruption within the party. Quality of reporting by South African standards is high and is generally a highly regarded source.
• Defence Web - Good source on African (specifically South African) defence related news.
• Sunday Times - has published a number of notable exposes. They do sometimes get things wrong but do correct themselves when they do. Owned by Tiso Blackstar Group.
• Business Day - generally good but features a lot of opinion pieces and does not always fact check. Owned by Tiso Blackstar Group.
• Engineering News - Good source for information on technical subjects but does sometimes use unreliable news wire sources for some stories.
• Mail and Guardian - generally relatively high quality but budget cuts have had a negative impact on quality. Tends to lean centre-left.
• amaBhungane - Notable investigative journalism source.
• Die Burger - Afrikaans language daily owned by Naspers.
• Politicsweb - South African politics news aggregator similar to realclearpolitics.

Usable but be cautious

List of news sources that can be used but be alert

• Biznews - Conservative orientation, tabloid, good to double check information.
• BusinessLive - Daily online version with less fact checking and lower editorial standards than its parent publication of Business Day, double check info. Owned by Tiso Blackstar Group.
• Timeslive - Daily online version with less fact checking and lower editorial standards than its parent publication of the Sunday Times. Owned by Tiso Blackstar Group.
• IOL News (Cape Times/Cape Argus/ other Independent News Media sources) - usually okay for local (City to town level) news but has been accused of strong pro-ANC and pro-Chinese bias and poor quality journalism since 2013 buyout by Sekunjalo Investments.
• News24 (website) - Naspers owned flagship news source, variable quality of information and pro-Naspers bias, tabloid, best to check information.
• Eye Witness News - similar problems to News24, tabloid, can be unreliable at times but mostly reliable. Best to double check information.
• Noseweek - Long running investigative journalism source similar to Private Eye. Best double check info as it is run as a tabloid.

Other sources

• SA History Online - reliable source for a range of history related topics
• Institute for Security Studies - does good research on security related topics in Africa.
• Africa Check - fact checking organisation
• Parliamentary Monitoring Group - reliable aggregator and repository of South African parliamentary activity such as biographies, speeches, public discussions and hearings.

• Sudans Post (https://www.sudanspost.com/)

• Sudan Tribune – news website and portal based in Paris, France and Khartoum, Sudan. Available in English and Arabic.

Digital news sources

• Tanzania newswire of allafrica.com, a site collecting news about Africa from different international sources, sorted by country
• The East African - weekly newspaper covering all countries of East Africa
• IPPmedia is a publisher with news in Swahili and English via newspapers, radio and TV IPP English, IPP Kiswahili
• Mwananchi Communications Limited are publishing newspapers in Swahili and English The Citizen, Mwananchi
• Tanzania Standard Newspapers is the publisher of the ruling party CCM Daily News, Habari Leo
• Mtanzania, a private newspaper

• Togo First (https://www.togofirst.com/en)

Newspapers

• New Vision - national daily , cited frequently by scholarly sources.
• The Daily Monitor - independent, local daily published under the Nation Media Group
• The Observer - privately owned weekly
• The East African - independent weekly published in Kenya under the Nation Media Group but with a coverage of East Africa

Local language

• Bukedde - local Luganda daily published by the Vision Group

Magazines and journals

• The Independent - privately owned magazine published in Kampala
• Uganda Journal - digital copies of the Uganda Journal , a publication of the Uganda Society, good for historical and pre-independence information on Uganda
• Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences - semi-annual peer reviewed journal publishing manuscripts in the areas of agricultural research and related fields, including reviews
• The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies - multi-disciplinary journal covering public administration, management, leadership and public policy

Government and statutory bodies

• Uganda National Web Portal - Web portal with links to all government ministries and related information
• Parliament of Uganda - Parliament of Uganda's website

News sources

• State Television news section - News

Websites of official institutions

• Parliament website - laws, information on government officials.
• State Television website - State TV.

Digital news sources

• Zimbabwe situation - Zimbabwe news aggregator service. Seeks to keep a record of Zimbabwe related news and events.
• Parliament of Zimbabwe - Each MP has a reliable, neutral biography. Also for bills, publication and votes.

News on Africa in general

• allAfrica pan-African news aggregator owned by AllAfrica Global Media.
  • https://allafrica.com
• BBC Africa News news from British public-service broadcaster BBC News.
  • : https://www.bbc.com/news/world/africa/
• Inside Africa: news from American media company CNN
  • https://edition.cnn.com/specials/africa/inside-africa
• AlJazeera: news from Qatari state-funded broadcaster
  • https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/africa.html
• Deutsche Welle news from German state-owned public broadcaster
  • English: https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/africa/s-12756,
  • Swahili: https://www.dw.com/sw/idhaa-ya-kiswahili/matukio-ya-afrika/s-13933

Contemporary arts and culture

• https://www.okayafrica.com
• http://www.africanheritagemagazine.de
• https://africasacountry.com/

People

• Dictionary of African Biography (cf en:Dictionary of African Biography - paywall - get wikimedia scholarship access (is that still up-to-date-advice?) or use en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Shared_Resources
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography - open access, initiated by a network universities/seminaries, entries of variable quality

Geography

• Geonames website

Academic journals

• African Journals OnLine - 262 open access journals https://www.ajol.info/index.php/index/browse/alpha?letter=oa

• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Central African Republic (CAR)
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo DRC
• Republic of the Congo
• Cote d'Ivoire
• Djibouti
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Gabon
• Niger
• Rwanda
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Sierra Leone
• Tunisia
• Guinea Bissau

1. Erinamukuta (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from Uganda)
2. Icem4k (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from Zambia)
3. Thuvack (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from South Africa)
4. Kipala (talk · contribs) (interested in East Africa, generally Africa) (deceased)
5. Ijon (talk · contribs) (interested in all of Africa)
6. Reda Kerbouche (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from Algeria)
7. Anass Sedrati (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from Morocco)
8. MassiveEartha (talk · contribs)
9. Jamie Tubers (talk · contribs) (interested in Nigeria, and Africa in general)
10. Discott (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mauritius)
11. Joy Agyepong (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from Ghana and West Africa)
12. AKibombo (talk · contribs) (sources from Uganda, East Africa and Africa in general)
13. Adamant1 (talk · contribs)
14. SBAbigstan (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from Ghana and West Africa)
15. Heatrave (talk · contribs) (interested in sources from Ghana and West Africa)

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