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.
AllAfrica Executive Chair Amadou Mahtar Ba, founder and co-convenor of the AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit, addressing the 2024 gathering in Nairobi.
Part of the AllAfrica Youth Innovation Challenge, which was launched during 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.
The 2018 AllAfrica International Women's Day Forum promoting convenes in Abidjan in collaboration with COMPENDIUM, a women's skills development program initiated by the Ivorian Head of State.
Senegalese activist Bineta Diop, African Media Initiative head Amadou Mahtar Ba and Hadeel Ibrahim of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation at the African Media Leaders Forum in Dakar in 2012.
Actor George Clooney speaking about Sudan with AllAfrica's Tami Hultman at a 2010 Council on Foreign Relations meeting in New York.
President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania with AllAfrica's Tami Hultman and Reed Kramer following a 2009 interview at State House in Dar es Salaam.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the launch of the AllAfrica news processing center and the AllAfrica Foundation's HealthAfrica initiative in Monrovia in 2007.
Global Reach and Reputation
Global Reach and Reputation
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 stats here.
2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit
2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit
AllAfrica hosted more than 300+ media professionals and representatives from international institutions and civil society organizations at the AllAfrica Media Leaders Summitin 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).
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''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.
Mastercard Foundation's Julie Gichuru interviews African Development Bank President Akin Adesina following his keynote address to the AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit. "Africa must shape its own narrative," he said, pledging support for "a globally respected African media company" to tell Africa's story to the world.
The 2024 Africa Media Leaders Summit included a public debate 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?
Dr. Tendai Mhizha, AllAfrica Senior Advisor and Summit Director (left) moderating the 'Making Truth Profitable' plenary at the AllAfrica Media Leaders with Adaora Oramah, CEO and Founder of AMAKA Studio and Cathy Phiri, Co-Founder @Media365Zambia
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.
AllAfrica's Melody Chironda (left) interviews Bineta Diop, the African Union Special Envoy for Women Peace, during the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit in Nairobi.
Accepting the Life Time Achievement Award on behalf of AllAfrica co-foundersTami Hultman and Reed Kramer were long-time AllAfrica colleagues Sherrard Burton and Marieme Ba. The award was presented by Bineta Diop, the African Union Commission Chairperson's Special Envoy, along with AllAfrica Executive Chair Amadou Mahtar Ba.
Historical Highlights
Historical Highlights
AllAfrica Global Media has been a leading, trusted digital source for news and information from and about the African continent for 25 years. Below is a timeline of key activities and achievements.
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.
'What is the Youths' Place in African Media?' - The Digizens' Circle at the University of Nairobi one day before the AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit.
Dixon Norbert Yiadom of Radio Maria Liberia is named winner of the AllAfrica Youth Innovation Challenge award at the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit.
An all-women plenary panel on Day 3 of the 2024 AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit explores strategies to enhance news appeal and audience engagement. Participants include Dr Tendai Mhizha of AllAfrica; Cathy Phiri of Media 365 Zambia; Zoé Titus, from the Namibia Media Trust; Beatrice Nyamari, from Smart Codes and Toun Okewale Sonaiya, from Radio 91.7FM, Nigeria.
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 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.
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.
Boakai Fofana, who headed AllAfrica's Monrovia bureau from 2007 to 2018 and returned as a senior editor in 2024, at the microphone in the Liberian Broadcasting System studio while serving as Liberia's Deputy Minister of Information.
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".
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.
AllAfrica managing editor Juanita Williams interviewing Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2020.
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.
AllAfrica's Amadou Mahtar Ba interviews President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the leader of Türkiye prepares to leave for official visits to Sudan, Tunisia and Chad in December 2017.
A Leadership Award is presented to First Lady Aminata Maiga Keita during the 2017 AllAfrica International Women's Day Forum in Bamako.
Marieme Ba, AllAfrica's Director General for West Africa, opens the 2016 International Women's Day celebration in Dakar with a focus on "Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women and Girls in Africa" and leadership awards for four high-profile women.
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 staff in the Dakar office in 2016.
Managing Editor Juanita Williams in the Cape Town office in 2016.
Aminata Sall, who joined AllAfrica in Washington DC in 2002 and later returned home to Senegal to serve as a senior editor on the Dakar team.
With Covid-19 spreading across Africa, AllAfrica launches an in-house built clickable map in 2020 to track up-to-date figures for cases and deaths in each African country, using data from Johns Hopkins University.
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.
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.
Many questions were posed by audience members during the Emerging Senegal Plan convening hosted by AllAfrica in Washington DC in April 2015.
Round table on the role of women in economic and human development during the inaugural AllAfrica International Women's Day Forum at the King Fahd Palace Hotel in Dakar in 2015.
Amadou Mahtar Ba, chief executive officer of the African Media Initiative and executive chair of AllAfrica Global Media, addressing the 6th African Media Leaders Forum in Addis Ababa in 2013.
Sherrard Burton, AllAfrica's chief technology architect, providing instruction for tech team trainees in Nairobi in 2012.
Bunmi Oloruntoba, special projects editor, and Marieme Ba, who heads the AllAfrica French service, in the Washington DC office in 2012
AllAfrica team members in Dakar for the 2012 African Media Leaders Forum: (left-to-right) Samantha Nkirote McKenzie, Nairobi office director; Matambira Makanda, chief financial officer of the AllAfrica Foundation; Rougui Diaw, head of Francophone operations; and John Allen, executive editor based in Cape Town.
Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid el Sebsi addressing the 2011 African Media Leaders Forum in Tunis.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaking at the African Media Leaders Forum in Tunis in 2011.
Phyllis Chesley, AllAfrica's Comptroller, who has been managing the company's accounting and financial reporting since 2001, at her desk in the Washington DC office in 2011.
AllAfrica staff in the Cape Town office in 2010.
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’.
2014: Amadou Mahtar Ba, executive chair and AllAfrica co-founder, is recipient of the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize (LAAP) by the Millennium Excellence Foundation. This follows his inclusion for three successive years on the list of 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine (2013, 2012, 2011), as “is possibly the best connected person in the media sphere, with access to the biggest media owners operating across the continent."
2013: 6th Africa Media Leaders Forum meets in Addis (‘Media and African Renaissance’) [book]
2012: AllAfrica is among 150 publishers selected to part in Currents – a mobile app for distributing full-length articles with images that later evolved into Google News.
2012: 5th Africa Media Leaders Forum meets in Dakar (‘Strengthening Media and governance through citizen engagement and innovation’). [book]
2011: Some 350 media owners and editors gather in Tunis for the 4th Africa Media Leaders Forum (‘What future for traditional media?’) [book].
2010: AllAfrica opens a tech hub in Nairobi following a recruitment drive for six trainee engineers.
2010: 3rd Africa Media Leaders Forum takes place in Yaoundé (‘Funding African media in an age of uncertain Business models’) [book].
AllAfrica's Charles Cobb, Jr. exchanges jokes with President Barrack Obama in the Blue Room at the White House as they get miked up for the only interview granted by the White House before the President's first trip to Africa in 2009.
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Robin Renee Sanders and American broadcaster Ted Koppel were special guests at the 2009 African Media Leaders Summit in Lagos
AllAfrica co-founder and CEO addressing the 2009 African Media Leaders Summit in Lagos.
Rougui Diaw, director of AllAfrica's Dakar team and AllAfrica co-founder Tami Hultman at the 2009 African Media Leaders Forum in Lagos with Akin Adesina, Vice President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
AllAfrica co-founder Amadou Mahtar Ba, CEO of the African Media Initiative, at the first African Media Leaders' Forum in 2008 in Dakar.
AllAfrica co-founders Amadou Mahtar Ba, Tami Hultman and Reed Kramer at the Washington, DC office in 2007.
AllAfrica team with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf along with Richard Tolbert, chairman of Liberia's National Investment Commission and AllAfrica Board member, at the opening of the AllAfrica office in Monrovia in 2007.
John P. Allen, AllAfrica executive editor and manager director of South African operations, signing books at National Cathedral in Washington DC during the 2006 launch if his authorized biography of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Rabble-Rouser for Peace.
2009: The White House taps AllAfrica to conduct U.S. President Barack Obama's only Africa-related interview prior to his first Africa visit as president.
2009: 2nd Africa Media Leaders Forum is held in Lagos (‘Harnessing the Power of New Information and Communication Technologies for Media Development’ ) [book].
2008: 1st Africa Media Leaders Forum organized by AllAfrica co-founder and executive chair Amadou Mahtar Ba takes place in Dakar. (‘Shaping the future of African media through networking and collaboration’) [book]
2007: Following a visit by AllAfrica execs to Google's Silicon Valley headquarters, AllAfrica is selected as a beta tester for development of the Google ad management platform that the now handles some 90 percent of the buy-and-sell market for display advertising online.
2007: AllAfrica news hubs are set up in Dakar and Cape Town to locate most story processing on the continent for the website and the AllAfrica News Wire, with staff using an in-house wiki for editorial collaboration.
2007: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf inaugurates the AllAfrica news processing and health reporting office in Monrovia.
2005: AllAfrica receives the Africa Economic Developer Award from the Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) in recognition of a "pioneering effort to present news from and about Africa to the world."
2004: AllAfrica is invited to join Google AdSense following roll-out of the selective publisher program after AllAfrica created an in-house platform for efficiently delivering revenue-producing display ads on all pages of the rapidly growing allAfrica site without delayed page loading for users with limited bandwidth.
C. Payne Lucas (r) and his wife, Freddie Lucas, receiving an award from UNDP in 2009.
AllAfrica editorial and sales office in Lagos, Nigeria in 2004, hosted by founding Board member Saidu Samaila Sambawa.
Senior Editor Ladi Olorunyomi, Senior Correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and Executive Editor Akwe Amosu at the AllAfrica office in Washington, DC in 2003. (left-to-right)
Xymbol, the internet application development and services provider created by AllAfrica, launches a tool-kit for internet programmers, providing an extensive set of facilities to speed development of information-heavy, network-centric, web-enabled systems
AllAfrica staff members at the Washington, DC office in September 2001.
Kwindla Hultman Kramer, founding Chief Technology Officer, with Sherrard Burton, Chief Technology Architect, in the room room at the AllAfrica office in Washington, DC in 2001.
2004: AllAfrica establishes a presence in Africa’s most populous market by opening an editorial and sales office in Lagos.
2004: C. Payne Lucas, who for three decades spearheaded the growth of the aid and development organization Africare, becomes senior advisor to AllAfrica and the AllAfrica Foundation.
2002 & 2003: allAfrica.com is nominated as "Best News Site" – alongside the Google and BBC news sites by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
2002: Xymbol, the internet application development and services provider created by AllAfrica, announces release of its flagship XML::Comma platform - a tool-kit for internet programmers, providing an extensive set of facilities to speed development of information-heavy, network-centric, web-enabled systems. Xymbol's tech contracts provide an essential additional revenue stream for AllAfrica following the dot-com bubble implosion that saw tech stocks prices plummet and web advertising income evaporate.
2001: AllAfrica launches Sponsor Wire to distribute press releases, announcements and other paid content, a decade before ‘sponsored content’ was adopted by leading publishers worldwide.
2000: In August the website allAfrica.com goes live carrying forward from Africa News Online, which launched in 1995 as one of only a few thousand websites worldwide and the first and only Africa-focused digital news portal. The AllAfrica website is built on an enterprise-level open-source systems platform operating in English and French using an in-house XML Comma codebase and supporting an evolving content management toolkit for publishing, tagging, sorting, ranking and aggregating a range of content.
2000: AllAfrica is incorporated by co-founders Amadou Mahtar Ba, Tami Hultman and Reed Kramer with funding from mostly African 'Angel' investors.
