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)