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AllAfrica.com carries news, sports and business from Africa. Additional separate pages (one per county) cover news from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa or Zimbabwe

Amsterdam based AfricaNews has the latest news and photos from Africa. Strong on South African coverage the site also has dedicated sections for Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

The mobile edition of Mmegi, the only independent daily newspaper in the African Repubic of Botswana. The site offers a nice mix of content including a half a dozen or so full stories from each of the paper's News, Sports, Editorials, Letters, Book Reviews, Business and Art/Culture sections. Most stories are illustrated with a news photo.; The mobile site even has a link to the paper's RSS feed, something more mobile sites should now that a number of mobile phones as well as Opera Mini have built in RSS readers.  Mmegi Mobile labels itself as a "test" site but it seems to be fully functional other than a broken link to the Comics section.  At 30KB the site might be a little large for some mobile browsers as reflected by its 3 out of 5 dev.mobi score.

The Standard is Kenya's oldest newspaper (founded 1902). The Nairobi based daily has full-length news articles from the paper's News, Business and Sports section as well as an editorial page, columnists and letters to the editor. Most stories are illustrated by a single news photo.  The images are not re-sized, and at up to 350px in width increase page size beyond the limits of some phones.

A Dallas, Texas based News blog which gathers news about Kenya and Kenyans from a variety of sources.  The mobile edition was created using the wp-pda WordPress plugin and allows readers to comment on stories.

The largest newspaper in Kenya and East Africa. The paper was featured in 2000 documentary film titled The Daily Nation. The Daily Nation's text only mobile site uses small page sizes and should work with any phone.  There are about 30 full length articles from the News, Politics, Sports and Business sections of the paper's PC web site.

The East African is a weekly news magazine published in Kenya by the Daily Nation and covers news from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. The site uses the same basic design as its parent with 20 articles evenly divided between News, Business, Op/Ed and Magazine sections

This Nigerian daily newspaper's mobile site has about a dozen top stories, local and international weather forecasts and a currency converter. All stories have a reader comment form and most are illustrated with a single image. The site's usability is hampered by it's slowness.

Nigerian online community using the Open Source Simple Machines Forum software which automatically generates a mobile formatted version.  NBF is an active (1600 concurrent users) and lively forum where Nigerians and expatriates discus everything from Africa's richest men to the politics of gun ownership.  There is a very active job board, another for Love and Romance and tech boards including several on mobile phone topics.

A popular political and news blog published by Sokwanele, a pro democracy, pacifist group opposed to the current dictatorial administration of President Robert Mugabe. This is Zimbabwe provides an alternative to the country's state controlled press.

A digest of news from and about Zimbabwe gathered from a variety of international sources.  The mobile site is created with the free RSS to mobile service FeedM8.

The South African state owned broadcasting corporation's mobile site offers national and world news and sports, technology, business, entertainment, science and politics coverage. Source: Mobility.mobi

Published in Cape Town the "Mail and Guardian" is a major South African daily paper. The paper's site is a full-blown news portal with coverage of sports, technology, personal finance, autos and entertainment. In addition to the main news site the Mail and Guardian also publishes a  family of mobile sites on specialized topics includingThought Leader (m.thoughtleader.co.za ) which features blogs, opinion and analysis, Sports Leader (m.sportsleader.co.za), Tech Leader (m.techleader.co.za), The Guide (m.theguide.co.za) - an entertainment directory, The Teacher (m.theteacher.co.za) - news for teachers and Campus Times (m.campustimes.co.za) targeted at students. Unlike the text-only main site, these sites include images.

News, Sports, Weather, TV and Movie Guides from and for South Africa.

Mobile online edition of Johannesburg's Times and Sunday Times newspapers carries breaking news, sports, inluding extensive World Cup reportage, entertainment  and business news, the publisher's and reporters' blogs and video clips of top stories.  Source: mobiThinking

A brand new mobile news site from Port Elizabeth, South Africa's daily newspaper, The Herald. The mobile site features about 30 full length articles from the paper's News, Sport and Live (entertainment) sections. Source: Mobility.mobi

Published by the International Marketing Council of South Africa, a "public-private partnership established in 2002 to create a positive, unified brand image for South Africa", SouthAfrica.info's mobile site has headline news, local weather forecasts and currency exchange rates along with business, travel, world cup and events sections. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Published in Cape Town South Africa, this site offers stories on South African business trends and opportunities plus an events calendar and and a five day Cape Town weather forecast. The site's user interface is rather quirky with only today's top three stories on the front page. However if you open the last story and hit the link labeled "Back" at the bottom of the page you can get to prior days' stories.

News, sports, weather and horoscopes from the mobile edition of South Africa's largest online news site, the  Independent Online. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

News, Sports and Classified Ads from Ghana.