PressAfrik
PressAfrik is a Dakar-based French-language news site covering Senegalese politics, society, economy and African affairs. It bills itself as Senegal's first JTI-certified media outlet and includes opinion and analysis sections.
PressAfrik at a glance
- Country
- Senegal
- Region
- West Africa · Africa
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- pressafrik.com ↗
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Is PressAfrik left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists PressAfrik as Center within Senegal's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.
Read PressAfrik beside another title from Senegal and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Digital-native outlets reorder their front pages continuously in response to reader behaviour, so PressAfrik may look different an hour from now — reload it alongside a print-cycle title and you can see which stories have staying power and which are traffic spikes. Because PressAfrik is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Senegal either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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Where PressAfrik sits in Senegal's press
PressAfrik is one of 4 outlets tracked in Senegal, and one of 2 digital-native outlets among them — the other being Dakaractu. By outlets tracked, Senegal ranks 11th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.
Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 64 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to PressAfrik outside Senegal, starting with West Africa, are L'Avenir (Côte d'Ivoire), Journal du Mali (Mali), Burkina24 (Burkina Faso) and ActuNiger (Niger). Opening one of them beside PressAfrik is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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