Region: Africa


CounterSpin: Gerald LeMelle on Obama in Africa, Katha Pollitt on Caitlin Flanagan in Time (7/17/09)

CounterSpin: John Feffer on North Korea, Han Shan on Shell & Ken Saro-Wiwa (5/29/09)

Extra!: Congo Ignored, Not Forgotten: When 5 million dead aren’t worth two stories a year (May 2009) By Julie Hollar

Economy CounterSpin: Melissa Harris-Lacewell on earmarks, Alex de Waal on Bashir indictment (3/13/09)

CounterSpin: Maurice Carney on the Congo, Sasha Lilley on The War Comes Home (11/14/08)

Extra!: 'Tribal’ Label Distorts African Conflicts: Ethnic framing may obscure political contexts (May/June 2008) By Julie Hollar

CounterSpin: Raed Jarrar on Iraq, Julie Hollar on Somalia (4/4/08)

Extra!: Rediscovering Somalia: Press downplays U.S. role in renewed crisis (March/April 2008) By Julie Hollar

CounterSpin: Seymour Hersh on Israel's Syrian air strike, Gerald LeMelle on Bush's Africa trip (2/15/08)

Elections/2008 CounterSpin: Tavia Nyong'o on Kenya, Trudy Lieberman on health care policy (2/8/08)

Extra!: The Humanitarian Temptation:: Calling for war to bring peace to Darfur (January/February 2008) By Julie Hollar

CounterSpin: Stan Karp on No Child Left Behind, Aaron Swartz on Rachel Carson (10/12/07)

Extra!: Sidebar: Charity Cases (May/June 2007) By Julie Hollar

Economy Extra!: Bono, I Presume?: Covering Africa Through Celebrities (May/June 2007) By Julie Hollar

Extra!: CounterSpin Interview: Mahmood Mamdani on Darfur: Western Media Must Share Responsibility (May/June 2007)

Economy CounterSpin: Jared Bernstein on taxes, Sunday Dare on Nigeria (4/20/07)

Extra!: Evolution Confusion: Newsweek’s muddled version of human origins (Update April 2007) By Jim Naureckas

CounterSpin: Mahmood Mamdani on Darfur, Karen Greenberg on Guantánamo (3/16/07)

Extra!: Never Apologize (September/October 2006) By Janine Jackson

Economy Extra!: 20 Stories That Made a Difference: For better or worse (January/February 2006) By Steve Rendall and Peter Hart and Julie Hollar

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Links:

world-newspapers.com, African newspapers online and news sites in English.

Survival International, extensive news and background on the indigenous struggles of Africa.

AllAfrica.com, aggregates content from over 325 African news sources.

Africa Confidential bulletin.

Media Institute of Southern Africa, promoting media diversity.

Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe, independent press watchdog.

More Africa news links at JournalismNet.