News Sources

AfricaFocus
This website features high-quality analysis and progressive advocacy on African issues, with particular attention to priority issues affecting the entire continent.

allAfrica.com
Aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views.

LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic focuses primarily on business and law topics, with additional general news (international, national and local), medical, and reference resources. Most material is full-text. For Business, LexisNexis features company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Legal Research, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.

World News Connection
World News Connection is an online news service that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, including African, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. Goes back to 1994.

The following African newspaper titles are available to library users and to researchers with a Penn State Access Account via PressDisplay Electronic Image Databases:

• Le Financier [Algeria]
• Daily Nation [Kenya]
• The East African [Kenya]
• Business Day [Nigeri]
• Beeld [South Africa]
• Die Burger [South Africa]
• Finweek Afrikaans Edition [South Africa]
• Finweek English Edition [South Africa]
• Mail & Guardian {South Africa]
• Sunday Times of Johannesburg [South Africa]
• The Citizen [South Africa]
• Daily Monitor [Uganda]
• Business Weekly [Zimbabwe]