AllAfrica

Source profile

Origin:

United States

Region:

Africa

Founded:

2000

Ownership: AllAfrica Global Media, Inc., a private United States company headquartered in Washington DC and incorporated in 2000 by Amadou Mahtar Ba, Tami Hultman and Reed Kramer with what the company describes as primarily African angel investment. Ba is executive chair. Offices are listed in Dakar, Cape Town, Nairobi, Abuja, Johannesburg and Washington. Its lineage runs back to the non-profit Africa News Service.

Funding: Commercial: display advertising, premium subscriptions and archive access, sponsored content distribution, and wholesale licensing into LexisNexis, Factiva, Bloomberg, Moody's NewsEdge and similar services. Terms of any revenue sharing with partner publishers are not disclosed.

Focus Areas: Pan-African news across governance, conflict and security, health, economy and business, law and corruption, environment, education and displacement, with its own reporting concentrated in health and pan-African policy.

Language:

English and French