RSS Feeds

RSS feeds enable users to view the latest and most important stories allAfrica.com. Current items in English and French are available across the 85 categories that are found on our site. The headline can be viewed for personal use or on a website, as long as proper formatting is maintained and material is correctly attributed. Any web site displaying the headlines must include a link to AllAfrica home page (at http://allafrica.com or http://fr.allafrica.com) or to the main page of the feed that you're using (such as http://allafrica.com/business/).

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Available Feeds

-- Select One -- -- Top News --   Latest -- Regions --   East Africa   North Africa   West Africa   Southern Africa   Africa   Central Africa -- Countries --   Somalia   Guinea   Mozambique   Ethiopia   Equatorial Guinea   South Africa   Nigeria   Tunisia   Morocco   Malawi   Mauritius   Mali   Swaziland   Botswana   Madagascar   Namibia   Algeria   Niger   Congo-Kinshasa   Cameroon   Burkina Faso   Comoros   Libya   Cote d'Ivoire   Rwanda   Benin   Zambia   Sierra Leone   Western Sahara   Eritrea   Angola   Central African Republic   Ghana   Djibouti   Guinea Bissau   Togo   Kenya   Gabon   Egypt   Mauritania   Seychelles   São Tomé and Príncipe   Congo-Brazzaville   Tanzania   Chad   South Sudan   Cape Verde   Lesotho   Uganda   Zimbabwe   Gambia   Liberia   Burundi   Sudan   Senegal -- Topics --   Entertainment   Transport   Water   U.S., Canada and Africa   Capital Flows   Tuberculosis   Food and Agriculture   Aid and Assistance   World Cup   Game Parks   Infrastructure   NGO   AIDS   Books   Travel   Governance   Malaria   Nutrition   ICT   Latin America and Africa   Labour   Investment   Athletics   Agribusiness   Pregnancy and Childbirth   Construction   Olympics   Migration   Privatization   Stock Markets   Africa on the Move   Mining   Polio   Science   Manufacturing   Petroleum   Sustainable Development   Energy   Soccer   Health   Legal Affairs   Arms and Armies   Climate   Debt   Land and Rural Issues   Innovation   Conflict   Refugees   Human Rights   Urban Issues   Trade   External Relations   Europe and Africa   International Organisations   Asia, Australia, and Africa   Currencies   Women   Music   Sport   Media   Environment   Terrorism   Middle East and Africa   Ecotourism   Banking   NEPAD   Business   Company   Religion   Oceans   Education   Peacekeeping   Commodities   Music Reviews   Wildlife   Children   AGOA   Book Reviews   Corruption

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How do I Start?

Headlines on a Web Site

Terms and Conditions

More Information on RSS

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How Do I Start

To access RSS feeds for personal use, you need either a news reader or aggregator that knows how to display RSS content from allAfrica.com or other Web sites you select. There are a variety of news readers available, many of which are free of charge. You can either sign up for an online service, use a web browser that provides this capability, or download the aggregator software and install it on your computer.
Web-based Aggregators are the easiest way to read feeds. Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Google let you add RSS feeds to your personalized page. NewsGator lets you read online or in your e-mail software, My Feedster marries an aggregator to an RSS search engine and Oddpost (for Windows) is a paid web-based e-mail service that includes a built-in aggregator, Bloglines notifies you of updates. Firefox Web browser, which lets you save RSS feeds as "Live Bookmarks" that update regularly (the Sage extension makes Firefox a more useful aggregator). The Opera browser integrates support for RSS feeds into its email reader.

To display AllAfrica headlines or stories on your reader or software, choose from any of the categories on the complete listing above.
If you run into any difficulties, you should contact the Aggregator's customer support.

For a list of other web-based news aggregators and browser plugins, as well as Desktop or Email-based, see here: http://www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators

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Headlines on a Web Site

The following URL will generate the Business, Economy & Finance summary:

http://allafrica.com/tools/headlines/rdf/business/headlines.rdf

The string business in the above URL specifies the category. The available categories are listed in this table.

For the French feeds, the server should be fr.allafrica.com. So the French, West Africa request would be:

http://fr.allafrica.com/tools/headlines/rdf/westafrica/headlines.rdf

For more information on RSS/RDF, see:

• Writing RSS 1.0
• RSS 1.0 Specification

For Further Assistance

If you need assistance with a Headline Module, or if you have suggestions for our development staff, please click here.

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Terms and Conditions

AllAfrica provides the headline modules at no charge and on an "as-is" basis. We specifically disclaim any representations or warranties, express or implied. Any site that chooses to use this service specifically acknowledges and agrees that AllAfrica is not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the headline modules.

As a condition for using the RSS feed, we ask that you credit allAfrica.com and that you link to either the AllAfrica home page (at http://allafrica.com or http://fr.allafrica.com) or to the main page of the feed that you're using (such as http://allafrica.com/business/).

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Additional Information

What is RSS?

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

More on RSS

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

Introduction to RSS

http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters

http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/

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