AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing news and information from over 100 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public. Our technology-driven, multi-channel platform is the only independent, comprehensive pan-African news source, with unrivaled reach and reputation.
AllAfrica is relied upon by decision makers and leaders in government, business and media, as well as by a younger generation that shares a panAfrican identity and wants a collaborative platform to help them address the common challenges they face.
AllAfrica embodies broad public outreach; an information service that has won respect, loyalty and an engaged readership; content aggregation from across Africa; original reporting on key development issues; pioneering technology and a next-generation platform and a production and dissemination operation that caters to the information needs of Africans and Africa-interested people and institutions. Opinion leaders from governments, the private sector, NGOs and philanthropies, international institutions and academia regularly seek the visibility that the AllAfrica distribution platform provides.
Our editorial, tech and sales team members operate from Dakar, Cape Town, Nairobi and Washington, DC, as well as Abuja, Abidjan, Addis Ababa, Johannesburg and Monrovia and we collaborate with news outlets and other content producers across the continent.
''Africa must shape its own narrative,'' African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina, told the Summit. To overcome ''age-old stereotypes'' - war, famine and disasters, he pledged support for ''a globally respected African media company'' to tell Africa's story to the world.
Part of the AllAfrica Youth Innovation Challenge, which was launched in the run-up to the 2024 Africa Media Leaders Summit, was the use of the internet, mobile platforms, computer-assisted reporting, augmented reality, and other electronic means to achieve maximum impact in improving youth engagement with mainstream news media.
AllAfrica's Amadou Mahtar Ba presents the 1st report by the UN High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment in New York on September 22, 2016.
Forum Allafrica Women's Agenda 2018
The 2024 Africa Media Leaders Summit started off with a Public Debate and Lunch at the University of Nairobi, which included the DIGIZEN's CIRCLE, an event hosted by AllAfrica and the One Campaign for young Africans to speak to the theme: Are you getting what you need from the media?
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf spoke at the launch of the AllAfrica news processing center and the AllAfrica Foundation's HealthAfrica initiative in Monrovia in 2007.
AllAfrica Executive Chair Amadou Mahtar Ba addressing the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit in Nairobi.
Dr Vera Songwe - chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility and former Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa and UN Under Secretary-General - speaking at the AllAfrica Media Leaders Forum about the importance of African media for continental progress.
Actor George Clooney speaking about Sudan with AllAfrica's Tami Hultman at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Global Reach
Over 60 percent of AllAfrica's audience is in Africa, using mobile devices primarily, offering fast-growth potential for digital media. AllAfrica connects with tens of millions of people through a network of 100 African media organizations; content exchanges with international media such as the Guardian (UK), Deutsch Welle and Radio France Internationale; and via X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, the Google and Apple News apps, Facebook, Viber and WhatsApp Channels. The AllAfrica News Wire supplies coverage to commercial and institutional clients through such distributors as Bloomberg, Dow Jones/Factiva, Moody's Analytics/NewsEdge, LexisNexis, ProQuest and Tagaday (Europe). The explosion of connectivity and mobile devices throughout Africa has provided AllAfrica with greater reach and growing impact across the continent, as well as new opportunities when independent media worldwide are searching for sustainable business models. The AllAfrica news team adds content in English and French at an average rate of 500 articles per day to a searchable archive that includes seven million stories and documents. A unique open-source platform knits dispersed staff into a virtual newsroom. The site consistently ranks high in online searches. For more information, view the media kit. Live audience stats here.
AllAfrica hosted more than 300+ media professionals and representatives from international institutions and civil society organizations at the AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit in Nairobi in May 2024 to explore media's role in shaping Africa's future, business models for sustainable operations, economic development and social progress and the critical role of AI and other technologies. The convening emerged from a history of bringing media partners together for successive African Media Leaders Forums organized by AllAfrica co-founder Amadou Mahtar Ba, in Addis, Tunis, Yaoundé, Lagos and Dakar (twice).
Historial Highlights
AllAfrica marks International Women's Day 2023 with a high-profile event in Rabat with a focus on the role of women in securing the continent's food resources and combating poverty.
Dixon Norbert Yiadom of Radio Maria Liberia is named winner of the AllAfrica Youth Innovation Challenge award at the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit.
Exploring innovative uses of mobile platforms, computer-assisted reporting, augmented reality, and other electronic means to boost youth engagement with media at the AllAfrica Youth Innovation Challenge during the 2024 Africa Media Leaders Summit.
Africa must have "a globally respected African media company" to tell Africa's story and "shape its own narrative," African Development Bank President Akin Adesina told the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit, where he was interviewed by Mastercard Foundation's Julie Gichuru.
The DIGIZENS CIRCLE during the 2024 African Media Leaders Summit features a survey with audience members using phones to vote live their answers to the questions about the youth and the legacy media in Africa.
AllAfrica Executive Chair and co-founder and Amadou Mahtar Ba speaking during the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit in Nairobi.
2024: AllAfrica convenes more than 300 media professionals and representatives from international institutions and civil society organizations at the 1st AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit in Nairobi in May.
2024: "An independent, professional, responsible, and private media is critical'' for the continent, African Development Bank President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina told the Summit. ''Africa must shape its own narrative'' and “overcome age-old stereotypes''.
2024: AllAfrica is named 2024 Financial Media of the Year Prize by the west African regional stock exchange known as BRVM (Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières).
2023: AllAfrica hosts the 10th AllAfrica Women's Agenda Forum in Rabat to celebrate International Women's Day spotlighting the role of women in combating poverty. During the event, AllAfrica announces jointly with the PhilJohn Academy 60 scholarships for young women who will receive training in leadership, entrepreneurship and technology.
2022: For the AllAfrica Women's Agenda Forum organized to mark International Women's Day, AllAfrica hosts a webinar in March on the theme "equality today for a sustainable future".
For International Women's Day 2021, AllAfrica in collaboration with the World Bank convenes a virtual panel examining the resilience of African women during the Covid-19 pandemic.
With Covid-19 spreading across Africa, AllAfrica launches an in-house built clickable map to track up-to-date figures for cases and deaths in each African country, using data from Johns Hopkins University.
The 2018 AllAfrica International Women’s Day Forum promoting the AllAfrica Women Agenda is convened in Abidjan in collaboration with COMPENDIUM, a women's skills development program initiated by the Ivorian Head of State.
The AllAfrica Leadership Leadership Award is presented to First Lady Aminata Maïga Keïta
during the 2017 AllAfrica International Women’s Day Forum in Bamako.
2021: As part of International Women's Day celebrations, AllAfrica in collaboration with the World Bank organizes a virtual panel in March for the AllAfrica Women's Agenda Forum examining the resilience of African women during the Covid-19 pandemic.
2020: As Covid-19 spreads across Africa, an in-house built clickable map is launched to track up-to-date figures for cases and deaths in each African country, using data from Johns Hopkins University. The editorial team boosts coverage with daily updates and original reporting with a focus on local efforts and World Health Organization and African Centres for Disease Control initiatives – all reporting shared across AllAfrica's continent-wide publishers network.
2019: AllAfrica is ranked as the 4th most influential information source – after billion-dollar Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – in a 2019 survey on development reporting commissioned by the UN Foundation.
2018: The 4th AllAfrica International Women's Day Forum promoting the AllAfrica Women Agenda is convened in Abidjan in collaboration with COMPENDIUM, a women's skills development program initiated by the Ivorian Head of State.
2017: The 3rd AllAfrica International Women's Day Forum convenes in Bamako focusing on #WomensEconomicEmpowerment with the participation of First Lady Aminata Maiga Keita.
AllAfrica's Amadou Mahtar Ba interviews President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the Turkish leader prepared to leave for official visits to Sudan, Tunisia and Chad.
AllAfrica's Amadou Mahtar Ba presents the 1st report by the UN High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment in New York on September 22, 2016.
AllAfrica team with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf after she officiated at the opening of the AllAfrica office in Monrovia in 2007.
2016: AllAfrica co-founder Amadou Mahtar Ba appointed to the United Nations' first High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment. The panel’s initial report was issued during the opening week of the UN General Assembly in September.
2016: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, along with award-winning artist Angelique Kidjo and the first female airline flight captain, Irene Koki Mutungi from Kenya Airways are presented Leadership Awards at the 2nd AllAfrica International Women’s Day Forum in Dakar, focusing on gender equality and women's empowerment.
2015: AllAfrica convenes the 1st AllAfrica International Women's Day Forum in Dakar in March.
2015: AllAfrica rolls out a responsive website, providing easily viewed content on screens of all sizes and positioning AllAfrica as an early adopter (again!) with a website able to deliver a wide range of information and ad types.
2015: AllAfrica marks 15th anniversary with twin events during the Annual IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington, DC – a briefing for investors and policymakers focusing on Senegal and an Award Dinner celebrating ‘The Africa We Want’.
