allAfrica is a website that aggregates and produces news primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture. It is owned by AllAfrica Global Media, a multi-media content service provider and the largest distributor of African news worldwide. The website operates from offices in Cape Town , Dakar , Abuja , Monrovia , Nairobi and Washington, D.C. . AllAfrica is the successor to Africa News Service.
6-454: Its stories can be displayed by categories and subcategories such as country, region, and by news topic. In 2008, AllAfrica rolled out a comment board system. The website is available in both English and French. It has the contents of 127 contemporary African newspapers, and news feeds from several hundred organizations internationally. It maintains a searchable 400,000-item archive dating back to 1997. The Executive Chair of AllAfrica Global Media
12-741: A member of the Panel of Judges for the annual CNN African Journalist Award . Ba was educated in Senegal, France and Spain, and is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Fulani and Wolof . He holds a master's degree from the Ecole Française des Professionnels de la Communication in Paris and Paris 7 University (Jussieu). Ba has received many distinguished awards and recognitions in Africa, Europe, and
18-531: Is Amadou Mahtar Ba . This article about a news website is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Amadou Mahtar Ba Amadou Mahtar Ba is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of AllAfrica Global Media Inc , - owner and operator of AllAfrica.com - an international multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest distributor of African news and information worldwide. From 2009 until May 2014, he
24-654: The United States. Since the inception of its list, New African magazine selected Ba as one of the "100 Most Influential Africans" of 2011, 2012 and 2013. Forbes listed him as one of "The Top 10 Most Powerful Men in Africa" in February 2014. The Millennium Africa Foundation presented him in 2014 with its Lifetime Achievement Award alongside laureates Goodluck Jonathan , President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and Dr. Donald Kaberuka , President of
30-822: The successful restructuring and privatization of the Panafrican News Agency (PANA). Amadou Mahtar Ba sits on several boards and participates in a number of international working groups including the UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment , the World Economic Forum Network of Global Agenda Councils , the Africa Democratic Institute , the Africa Policy Advisory Board of ONE and serves as
36-540: Was Chief Executive of the African Media Initiative , a pan-African effort he established to provide the continent's media owners and practitioners with tools they need to play a stronger leadership role in their communities, countries and the region. Prior to starting AllAfrica, Ba served from 1996 to 2000 as Director of Communications and Marketing for BICIS Bank , a subsidiary of the French banking group BNP Paribas . From 1993 to 1996, Ba helped lead
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