It is owned by AllAfrica Global Media, a multi-media content service provider and the largest distributor of African news worldwide.

[1] The website operates from offices in Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Monrovia, Nairobi and Washington, D.C..[2] AllAfrica is the successor to Africa News Service.

Its stories can be displayed by categories and subcategories such as country, region, and by news topic.

[3] It has the contents of 127 contemporary African newspapers, and news feeds from several hundred organizations internationally.

[3] The Executive Chair of AllAfrica Global Media is Amadou Mahtar Ba.