AllAfrica to Explore Africa's Development Challenges

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Cape Town — The AllAfrica Foundation is launching an initiative to report Africa's efforts to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development. A $2.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will enable AllAfrica to move from periodic to consistent covera
ge of development issues, and to increase institutional capacity to support future projects.

The text, audio and video reports will be featured on allAfrica.com, the largest online, public distributor of African news and information. The website is maintained by the AllAfrica Foundation's sister organization, AllAfrica Global Media, which aggregates content from more than 130 African news organizations and hundreds of agencies and institutions and maintains a searchable archive approaching 2.5 million documents.

AllAfrica's reporting will be produced in English and French in collaboration with its African media partners, who will use the materials in their newspapers and on their websites. In addition, the reports will be included in AllAfrica's 24-hour News Wire for institutional, corporate, and financial clients through such services as Acquire Media, Bloomberg, Comtex News Network, Dow Jones/Factiva, L'Européenne de Données, Financial Times, LexisNexis and Thompson-Dialogue, which collectively reach tens of millions of end users worldwide.