Library Research Guides: AFR 252: Francophone Africa: Find News Coverage

FOREIGN NEWS IN TRANSLATION

BBC Monitoring: International Reports
Foreign news broadcasts in translation, 1979-present.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) This link opens in a new window
Broadcasts, news agency transmissions, and government statements from around the globe translated into English, 1941-1996.

News from Africa
allAfrica.com
site offers 2000 news and information items daily from over 130 African news organizations and their own reporters. Based in Cape Town, Dakar, Lagos, Monrovia, Nairobi & Washington DC.
Electronic Newspapers of Africa
Links to open-access, online newspapers compiled by Columbia University librarians
Gallica
French national digital library, includes French and Francophone African newspapers

African Newspapers, 1800-1922 This link opens in a new window
More than 40 fully searchable English- and foreign-language African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

New York Times, 1980-present This link opens in a new window
Global Newsstream provides current coverage, but only news and editorial content in HTML format.
Wall Street Journal 1984-present This link opens in a new window
Financial and economic news in text-only articles (no images), 1986 to present. For earlier issues or for images, see the microfilm (Microfilm Room, Level 1, Clapp Library).
Nexis Uni news sources This link opens in a new window
Search thousands of US or foreign newspapers, and narrow your results by geographic region or publication.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
One of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, many in full text, as well as news sites, blogs, and newswires from the 1980s to the present (dates vary by title).