Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Africa Sources List

Welcome to the Africa Sources List project!

Goals

 * The project aims to curate a list of reliable sources for African topics.

Botswana

 * The Botswana Gazette (https://thegazette.news/)
 * Botswana Guardian Sun (https://guardiansun.co.bw/)
 * Mmegi (https://www.mmegi.bw/)

Cameroon

 * Cameroon Online (https://www.cameroononline.org/)
 * Cameroon Tribune (https://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/)

Cape Verde

 * A Nação (https://www.anacao.cv/) (Portuguese)
 * A Semana (https://www.asemana.publ.cv/) (Portuguese)

Egypt

 * Al Arabi (newspaper) (https://elarabielyoum.com/) (Arabic)
 * Daily News Egypt (https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/)
 * The Egyptian Gazette (https://egyptian-gazette.com/)
 * Egypt Today (https://www.egypttoday.com/)

Eswatini

 * Eswatini Observer (http://new.observer.org.sz/)
 * Swaziland News (https://www.swazilandnews.co.za/)
 * Times of Swaziland (http://www.times.co.sz/)

The Gambia

 * The Point (https://thepoint.gm/)

Digital news sources

 * Parliament of Ghana -Parliament of Ghana
 * Myjoyonline,Ghana - Myjoy Online,Ghana
 * Citinewsroom, Ghana - Citi Newsroom, Ghana
 * 3news Ghana - 3news Ghana
 * Graphic Online Ghana - Graphic Online Ghana
 * Ghana News Agency - Ghana News Agency
 * Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation - Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation
 * The Ghana Report - The Ghana Report

Kenya

 * The Standard (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/)
 * Daily Nation
 * Business Daily Africa
 * Capital FM
 * Citizen TV (]

Liberia

 * The Analyst (https://analystliberiaonline.com/)

Mauritania

 * Al-Houriya (https://elhourriya.net/)

Digital news sources

 * Hespress.com (Arabic)
 * Maghreb Arab Press - Moroccan Press Agency (Arabic, Berber, French)
 * L'économiste - Economy news (French)
 * Telquel - various news (French)
 * Lakome website - Political news (Arabic)

YouTube Channels

 * Medi1TV Channel (Arabic, French)
 * Al Oula TV Channel (Arabic)
 * Tamazight TV Channel (Berber)

Mozambique

 * Club of Mozambique (https://clubofmozambique.com/)

Namibia

 * The Namibian (https://www.namibian.com.na/)

Digital news sources

 * National Assembly of the Republic of Nigeria (bills, publications, votes)
 * Premium Times (reliable newspaper with an emphasis on investigative journalism and anti-corruption)
 * The Nation Nigeria– national paper
 * Silverbird TV – national TV
 * Punch NG– national paper
 * Sun News Online– national paper
 * The Guardian Nigeria – national paper
 * The Vanguard – national paper
 * Allure – pull out fashion magazine inside Sunday Vanguard (from http://www.vanguardngr.com)
 * http://www.voice-online.co.uk – seems to be a British magazine but has significant coverage of Nigerian subjects

Senegal

 * Le Quotidien (https://lequotidien.sn/) (French)

Seychelles

 * Seychelles Nation (https://www.nation.sc/)
 * Seychelles News Agency (http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/)

Digital news sources

 * Horseed Media, probably reliable per an RSN discussion.

News sources
Below is a list of news sources
 * GroundUp - Non-profit online news paper with a focus on local journalism
 * Moneyweb - Financial news source.
 * Daily Maverick - Features lots of commentary and analysis so be alert for that. Otherwise found to be reliable. Has been accused of anti-EFF bias by the EFF due to its coverage of corruption within the party. Quality of reporting by South African standards is high and is generally a highly regarded source.
 * Defence Web - Good source on African (specifically South African) defence related news.
 * Sunday Times - has published a number of notable exposes. They do sometimes get things wrong but do correct themselves when they do. Owned by Tiso Blackstar Group.
 * Business Day - generally good but features a lot of opinion pieces and does not always fact check. Owned by Tiso Blackstar Group.
 * Engineering News - Good source for information on technical subjects but does sometimes use unreliable news wire sources for some stories.
 * Mail and Guardian - generally relatively high quality but budget cuts have had a negative impact on quality. Tends to lean centre-left.
 * amaBhungane - Notable investigative journalism source.
 * Die Burger - Afrikaans language daily owned by Naspers.
 * Politicsweb - South African politics news aggregator similar to realclearpolitics.

Usable but be cautious
List of news sources that can be used but be alert
 * Biznews - Conservative orientation, tabloid, good to double check information.
 * BusinessLive - Daily online version with less fact checking and lower editorial standards than its parent publication of Business Day, double check info. Owned by Tiso Blackstar Group.
 * Timeslive - Daily online version with less fact checking and lower editorial standards than its parent publication of the Sunday Times. Owned by Tiso Blackstar Group.
 * IOL News (Cape Times/Cape Argus/ other Independent News Media sources) - usually okay for local (City to town level) news but has been accused of strong pro-ANC and pro-Chinese bias and poor quality journalism since 2013 buyout by Sekunjalo Investments.
 * News24 (website) - Naspers owned flagship news source, variable quality of information and pro-Naspers bias, tabloid, best to check information.
 * Eye Witness News - similar problems to News24, tabloid, can be unreliable at times but mostly reliable. Best to double check information.
 * Noseweek - Long running investigative journalism source similar to Private Eye. Best double check info as it is run as a tabloid.

Other sources

 * SA History Online - reliable source for a range of history related topics
 * Institute for Security Studies - does good research on security related topics in Africa.
 * Africa Check - fact checking organisation
 * Parliamentary Monitoring Group - reliable aggregator and repository of South African parliamentary activity such as biographies, speeches, public discussions and hearings.

South Sudan

 * Sudans Post (https://www.sudanspost.com/)

Sudan and South Sudan

 * Sudan Tribune – news website and portal based in Paris, France and Khartoum, Sudan. Available in English and Arabic.

Digital news sources

 * Tanzania newswire of allafrica.com, a site collecting news about Africa from different international sources, sorted by country
 * The East African - weekly newspaper covering all countries of East Africa
 * IPPmedia is a publisher with news in Swahili and English via newspapers, radio and TV IPP English, IPP Kiswahili
 * Mwananchi Communications Limited are publishing newspapers in Swahili and English The Citizen, Mwananchi
 * Tanzania Standard Newspapers is the publisher of the ruling party CCM Daily News, Habari Leo
 * Mtanzania, a private newspaper

Togo

 * Togo First (https://www.togofirst.com/en)

Newspapers

 * New Vision - national daily, cited frequently by scholarly sources.
 * The Daily Monitor - independent, local daily published under the Nation Media Group
 * The Observer - privately owned weekly
 * The East African - independent weekly published in Kenya under the Nation Media Group but with a coverage of East Africa

Local language

 * Bukedde - local Luganda daily published by the Vision Group

Magazines and journals

 * The Independent - privately owned magazine published in Kampala
 * Uganda Journal - digital copies of the Uganda Journal, a publication of the Uganda Society, good for historical and pre-independence information on Uganda
 * Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences - semi-annual peer reviewed journal publishing manuscripts in the areas of agricultural  research and related fields, including reviews
 * The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies - multi-disciplinary journal covering public administration, management, leadership and public policy

Government and statutory bodies

 * Uganda National Web Portal - Web portal with links to all government ministries and related information
 * Parliament of Uganda - Parliament of Uganda's website

News sources

 * State Television news section - News

Websites of official institutions

 * Parliament website - laws, information on government officials.
 * State Television website - State TV.

Digital news sources

 * Zimbabwe situation - Zimbabwe news aggregator service. Seeks to keep a record of Zimbabwe related news and events.
 * Parliament of Zimbabwe - Each MP has a reliable, neutral biography. Also for bills, publication and votes.

News on Africa in general

 * allAfrica pan-African news aggregator owned by AllAfrica Global Media.
 * https://allafrica.com
 * BBC Africa News news from British public-service broadcaster BBC News.
 * : https://www.bbc.com/news/world/africa/
 * Inside Africa: news from American media company CNN
 * https://edition.cnn.com/specials/africa/inside-africa
 * AlJazeera: news from Qatari state-funded broadcaster
 * https://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/africa.html
 * Deutsche Welle news from German state-owned public broadcaster
 * English: https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/africa/s-12756,
 * Swahili: https://www.dw.com/sw/idhaa-ya-kiswahili/matukio-ya-afrika/s-13933

Contemporary arts and culture

 * https://www.okayafrica.com
 * http://www.africanheritagemagazine.de
 * https://africasacountry.com/

People

 * Dictionary of African Biography (cf en:Dictionary of African Biography - paywall - get wikimedia scholarship access (is that still up-to-date-advice?) or use en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Shared_Resources
 * Dictionary of African Christian Biography - open access, initiated by a network universities/seminaries, entries of variable quality

Geography

 * Geonames website

Academic journals

 * African Journals OnLine - 262 open access journals https://www.ajol.info/index.php/index/browse/alpha?letter=oa

Countries needing sources

 * Burkina Faso
 * Burundi
 * Central African Republic (CAR)
 * Chad
 * Comoros
 * Congo DRC
 * Republic of the Congo
 * Cote d'Ivoire
 * Djibouti
 * Equatorial Guinea
 * Eritrea
 * Gabon
 * Niger
 * Rwanda
 * Sao Tome and Principe
 * Sierra Leone
 * Tunisia
 * Guinea Bissau

Participants

 * 1)  (interested in sources from Uganda)
 * 2)  (interested in sources from Zambia)
 * 3)  (interested in sources from South Africa)
 * 4)   (interested in East Africa, generally Africa) (deceased)
 * 5)  (interested in all of Africa)
 * 6)  (interested in sources from Algeria)
 * 7)  (interested in sources from Morocco)
 * 8)  (interested in Nigeria, and Africa in general)
 * 9)  (interested in sources from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mauritius)
 * 10)  (interested in sources from Ghana and West Africa)
 * 11)  (sources from Uganda, East Africa and Africa in general)
 * 12)  (interested in sources from Ghana and West Africa)
 * 13)  (interested in sources from Ghana and West Africa)
 * 1)  (interested in sources from Ghana and West Africa)
 * 2)  (interested in sources from Ghana and West Africa)

Open tasks

 * Add or Improve sources