Urban 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 commons: East African magazines, newspapers, and films: The Hilary Ng'weno Archive. ([Washington, D.C.] : Coherent Digital, [2023]-)
    "The archive presents more than 100,000 pages of digitized publications from Hilary Ng'weno's media company in Nairobi, Kenya...Highlights include: The Weekly Review, 1975-1999 ; The Nairobi Times, 1977-1983 ; Making of a Nation documentaries and oral histories."

  • 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)
    --See also: Factiva below

  • Columbia University Libraries (New York)
  • The Economist Intelligence Unit:
    EIU Viewpoint on Africa
    -and- Middle East
    --See also: EIU Country Reports Archive, 1952-1995

  • Emerging Markets Information Service (New York: Internet Securities, 2000-)
    NOTE: Search by keyword from top box. Or, select "Markets" on left panel, scroll down for Countries, and select "News" or other categories.

  • Factiva.Com. (New York: Dow Jones and Reuters, c2002--)

  • Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996 (Naples, Florida: Readex)
    US government service providing English language (or translated) news from non-US media.
    --For 1996-2013, see "World News Connection" below.

  • Global Observatory (International Peace Institute, New York and Vienna)

  • Mideastwire.com (Beirut, Lebanon)

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

  • ReliefWeb (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

  • World News Connection, 1996-2013. (Springfield, VA: NTIS; via East View Information Services)
    English language (or translated) news from non-US media: inc. newspapers, periodicals, & television and radio broadcasts.
  • 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:
    Daily Observer (Monrovia), 1981-2016 ; Daily Times (Lagos), 1956-1994 ;
    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)