Read Africa's press
African Newspapers Online
Every African country's newspapers, news sites and TV channels — one place to start
55 countries · 1,176 newspapers · 18 Africa-wide outlets
Africa has no single national press to speak of — it has fifty-odd of them, published in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Amharic, Swahili, Somali, Afrikaans, Hausa and dozens more languages. This page is the way in: pick a country to read its own papers, or start with the continent-wide outlets further down.
The largest press markets are Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco and Algeria, each with dozens of dailies and news sites. The smallest — São Tomé and Príncipe, Comoros, Eswatini — may have a single state paper and one or two independent news sites. Both are here, and both link straight to the publication's own website.
Browse by country
Grouped by sub-region, then alphabetically. The number on each card is how many newspapers, news sites and TV channels that country's page lists.
North Africa
7 countriesThe Arabic-language press of the Maghreb and Nile valley, much of it also publishing in French or English.
West Africa
16 countriesAnglophone Nigeria and Ghana alongside the francophone Sahel and coast, plus lusophone Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.
Benin9 newspapers
Burkina Faso9 newspapers
Cape Verde6 newspapers
Gambian7 newspapers
Ghanaian29 newspapers
Guinea13 newspapers
Guinea Bissau12 newspapers
Ivorian23 newspapers
Liberian6 newspapers
Malian9 newspapers
Mauritanian28 newspapers
Niger8 newspapers
Nigerian58 newspapers
Senegalese24 newspapers
Sierra Leone12 newspapers
Togo9 newspapersCentral Africa
9 countriesLargely French-language, with Portuguese in Angola and São Tomé and Spanish in Equatorial Guinea.
East Africa & the Horn
10 countriesEnglish and Swahili dailies in the east; Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali and Arabic across the Horn.
Southern Africa
9 countriesSouth Africa's large multilingual press and its neighbours', mostly in English plus Afrikaans and Portuguese.
Indian Ocean islands
4 countriesSmall but distinct island presses in French, English, Creole and Malagasy.
Africa-wide news & wire services
Business, analysis & magazines
Frequently asked questions
- How many African newspapers are listed here?
- Every African country and territory with a press of its own has a page on this site, and each page lists that country's national dailies alongside its business, sports and regional titles, TV channels and news websites. The counts on the country cards above are live — they add up to well over a thousand publications across the continent.
- Which African newspapers publish in English?
- Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Sudan and South Africa all have English-language dailies. Several francophone and Arabic-language papers also run English editions — those are listed in an English section on the country's own page.
- Where can I read African news in French, Portuguese or Arabic?
- French is the main press language across West and Central Africa — from Senegal and Ivory Coast to the DR Congo — as well as Madagascar and the Comoros. Portuguese covers Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. Arabic is the press language of Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan and Mauritania. RFI Afrique, RTP África and the Arabic-language titles on each North African country page are good starting points.
- Is there one African newspaper that covers the whole continent?
- No single daily does, which is why the shelf above exists. AllAfrica comes closest by aggregating 130+ publishers; Africanews, Reuters Africa and BBC News Africa report continent-wide; and Jeune Afrique, The Africa Report, African Business and The Continent cover Africa as a single beat rather than country by country.
- Are these links to the newspapers themselves?
- Yes. Every listing on this site links to the publication's own website — there is no paywall, login or reader in between. Where a paper has an in-depth profile page here, the card links to that profile first, which carries the paper's history, languages and reader reviews plus a direct link out.
Africa's press is younger and more digital than most: mobile reading dominates, several countries' most-read outlets have never had a print edition, and the wire services and aggregators listed above often carry a story before the national dailies do. Where a title has both a print and an online edition, the country pages link to the online one.
Press freedom varies sharply between the countries on this page — some have a crowded, combative independent press, others one state title and little else. The directory lists what a country actually publishes without ranking it, and titles whose websites have gone offline are kept on the country page as retired entries rather than deleted, so the record stays readable.