History of Health and Medicine in Africa: News

Current & Historical News

  • Access world news--Africa. Newsbank. (Naples, Florida)
    Plain text versions of news stories from selected major African media outlets, covering the last 10 years up to 1 week ago.

  • Africa confidential. (London)
    1996 to present ( via Publisher)
    2003 to 3 years ago (via EBSCO)
    Print, 1964-2011

  • Africa research bulletin: economic, financial & technical series. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1964-)
    1997 to present (via Wiley-Blackwell)

  • Africa research bulletin: political, social & cultural series. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1964-)
    1997 to present (via Wiley-Blackwell)

  • AllAfrica.Com News (Washington, DC)
    Selected articles from electronic African newspapers & other sources since 1996, with searchable archive, in English and French.
    --See also: Factiva below

  • Columbia University
  • Factiva.Com. (New York: Dow Jones and Reuters, c2002--)
    NOTE: Select "Sources" and "Languages" before searching.

  • The New Humanitarian (Geneva, Switzerland) Formerly IRIN News

  • SciDevNet on Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (Oxfordshire, UK)

  • United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
    • ReliefWeb -- Countries
      This searchable site provides links to full-length reports on areas of the world affected by humanitarian "emergencies"
  • Historical Newspapers

  • Access world news--South African historical newspapers. Newsbank. (Naples, Florida)
    The Sowetan archive, 1981-2019 -and- The Sunday Times archive, 1906-2019, both featuring digitized versions of the print

  • Columbia University: Newspapers of Africa on Microfilm

  • The Center for Research Libraries : Newspapers (Chicago, Illinois)

  • East View & The Center for Research Libraries--Global Press Archive: East African Newspapers, 1943-2003: Daily Nation (Nairobi) ; Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa) ; Monitor (Kampala). [Minneapolis, Minnesota] : East View Information Services.

  • World Newspaper Archive--African (pre-1923) (Naples, FL: Readex)
    --Plus: Rand Daily Mail, 1902-1985 (Johannesburg)