Newspapers and news sites online

• Africa South of the Sahara: selected internet resources - African Newspapers / African News Links to African newspapers and African news sites, compiled by Stanford University Library.
• afrol News afrol News is an independent news agency covering the African continent, with freely available articles in either English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
• allAfrica.com Collects, produces and distributes 2000 news items daily from over 130 African news organizations and their own reporters. Available to all Library users on-campus. Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students, using their SOAS ID and password .
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• BBC News World edition: Africa Africa news from the BBC.
• ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers The ICON Database of International Newspapers is a freely accessible electronic resource providing information about newspapers including bibliographic descriptions of titles and information on institutional holdings where available.
• Pambazuka News News,commentary and analysis for social justice in Africa.
• SA Media Press cuttings database consisting of more than 3 million South African newspaper reports and periodical articles since 1978. Access the database via the ‘Login’ link.
• World-Newspapers.com: Africa Provides links to African newspapers and news sites.

The resources listed above relate specifically to Africa but other more general sites (for example Access World News ) will also contain Africa related news.

More information about the Library’s news databases can be found at News databases