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)
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--Global Press Archive. (Minneapolis)
Daily Observer (Monrovia), 1981-2016 ; Daily Times (Lagos), 1956-1994 -and- East African Newspapers, 1943-2003: Daily Nation (Nairobi) ; Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa) ; Monitor (Kampala).
World Newspaper Archive--African (pre-1923) (Naples, FL: Readex)
--Plus: Rand Daily Mail, 1902-1985 (Johannesburg)