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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 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-touch WordPress plugin and allows readers to comment on stories. Mobile device detection is broken and only detects iOS and Android browsers with the desktop page served to other mobile browsers

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.

Mobile online edition of Lagos, Nigeria daily newspaper, The Vanguard. Hundreds of items from the paper's News, Business, Finance, Technology, Politics, Sports, Entertainment, Style, Viewpoints and Editorials sections with reader comments.

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

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.

Latest Zimbabwe political, social and entertainment news written by and for members of the Zimbabwean expatriate community.

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.

Well designed mobile edition of a leading South African online news site. Has local, world, sport, entertainment and business news, traffic and weather reports. Lots of photos and free downloadable mobile formatted news videos and podcasts. Source: mobiThinking

27-Mar-2013: Mobile site is down. Desktop site is ewn.co.za

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

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

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

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.