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Africa News

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Last Update To Bluesheet: March 29, 2006

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Subject Coverage Database Content DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories Basic Index Rank
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Print Counterparts Geographic Coverage Terms and Conditions Limit Rates


File Description [top]

Africa News Service is an international news agency covering political, economic, and social developments in Africa. Africa News has been a leading information source on Africa since 1973. Contributors include the Panafrican News Agency, headquartered in Dakar, with more than 30 correspondents throughout Africa providing daily coverage and specialized features, and the Nairobi-based All Africa Press Service. Participating publications include some of Africa's best-known independent periodicals, among them the Post of Zambia, the Mail and Guardian of Johannesburg, the Addis Tribune, the Sudan Democratic Gazette, and Nigeria's Newswatch and Theweek. The service also provides a selection of key speeches and comments on Africa and U.S.-Africa relations.


Africa News is contained in two databases: Files 606 and 806. File 606 contains current data beginning in June 1999. File 806 contains archive data spanning from July 1996 through May 1999. OneSearch/DIALINDEX category AFRICANEWS may be used to begin both files simultaneously; i.e., BEGIN AFRICANEWS.



Tips [top]

USE FILES 606 AND 806

to find news on industries, markets, and political and economic conditions in Africa and its global partners.

USE AFRICANEWS

to search Files 606 and 806 simultaneously in OneSearch or DIALINDEX

     BEGIN AFRICANEWS      BEGIN 411; SF AFRICANEWS

USE STANDARDIZED INFOSORT TERMS

(in File 606) to search Company Names (/CO, CO=), Geographic Names (/GN, GN=), Event Names (/DE, EN=), or Industry Names (/PN, PN=).



Subject Coverage [top]

  • Agriculture
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Finance
  • Government
  • Housing
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Trade
  • Travel


Print Counterparts [top]

  • None


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: June 1999 to the present (File 606)
July 1996 to May 1999 (File 806)
File Size: 926,074 records as of March 2006 (File 606)
64,000 records (File 806)
Update Frequency: Multiple times per day (File 606)
Closed (File 806)


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Newswires


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • International


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]

  • ERA Available
  • Graduate Education Program
  • KWIC and HILIGHT Available
  • DIALOG Alert Available
  • Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
  • CURRENT Feature Available


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
AFRICANE Africa News Files
GENERALN General News Files
INTLNEWS Global News English-Language Sources
MIDEASTN Middle Eastern/African News
NEWSFILE News, Archival
NEWSWIRE Newswires


Contact [top]

Africa News is provided by Comtex Scientific Corporation. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

Comtex Scientific Corporation
4900 Seminary Road
Alexandria, VA 22311

Telephone: 703-820-2000
Fax: 703-820-2005


Terms and Conditions [top]

Africa News is copyrighted by Africa News Service via Comtex

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online.


Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD FROM FILE 606 [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 606:Africa News 
    (c) 1999 Africa News Service Via Comtex. All rts. reserv. 
     
    00013669  19990618169U6625  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI  Submarine cable system is launched 
  JN=  Africa News 
  DY=,MO=,PD=,PY=  Friday, June 18, 1999  20:42 EDT 
  JC=,LA=,RT=,DT=  JOURNAL CODE:  AN  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH  RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT  DOCUMENT TYPE: 
      NEWSWIRE 
    WORD COUNT: 417 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP,/TX  Johannesburg (Business Day, June 18, 1999) - The launch yesterday of a 
    $600m undersea cable system, funded by 40 nations, is to provide a 
    telecommunications channel to cater for Africa's international 
    connectivity requirements for the next 25 years. 
     
    In one of his first engagements as head of state, President Thabo Mbeki 
    presided over the ceremony. Telkom MD Sizwe Nxasana said Mbeki's 
    interest in the project was a "clear sign of how seriously we in SA are 
    taking this project". 
     
  /TX  Nxasana said there was confidence that SA's new communications 
    minister, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, would continue government's interest 
    in the project. 
     
    "This project has brought together 40 nations and some of the world's 
    most influential telecommunications players in a joint effort to link 
    more people to each other," he said. 
     
    "It will provide a safe, secure, fully digital and reliable wet global 
    highway that will effectively link Portugal to west Africa to Cape Town 
    to India and Malaysia." 
     
    The southwest African submarine cable is a 15000km fibreoptic cable 
    linking Europe with SA and a number of countries on the west African 
    coastline. 
     
    The SA-Far East system continues the connection another 13800km as far 
    as Malaysia via Reunion and Mauritius, with a landing that brings India 
    into the system. 
     
    "It's an 80 gigabit link, or in layman's terms, that is capacity equal 
    to 4,83-million simultaneous telephone conversations or over 8000 
    digital television transmissions." 
     
    Nxasana said that by 2001, the submarine cable system will be owned, 
    controlled and maintained by the individual operators. 
     
    The system will give African countries direct access to each other as 
    well as significantly increased access to global markets, while keeping 
    the majority of the revenue it generates on the continent where it can 
    be used to spur the economic development of Africa as a whole. 
    (...) 
    Construction is scheduled to begin almost immediately and the project 
    is scheduled to be fully operational in 2001. 
    Lying between 1000m and 8000m below the surface of the ocean, the cable 
    system will be built to be impervious to bad weather and vandalism. 
     
    By Robyn Chalmers and ECN 
     
    Copyright 1999 Business Day. Distributed via Africa News Online. 
     
    -0- 
         Copyright (c) 1999 Africa News Service. All rights reserved. 
     
  /CO,CO=  COMPANY NAMES:  SA ; SA INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD 
  /GN,GN=  GEOGRAPHIC NAMES:  AFRICA ; WEST AFRICA 
  /PN,PN=  INDUSTRY NAMES:  BROADCASTING ; POLITICAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; COMMUNICATIONS 
     TECHNOLOGIES ; MEDIA INDUSTRIES 
  /DE,EN=  EVENT NAMES:  GOVERNMENT ; INTERNATIONAL ISSUES ; POLITICAL AND PUBLIC 
     AFFAIRS 


SAMPLE RECORD FROM FILE 806 [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 806:Africa News 
    (c) 1996 Africa News via Comtex. All rts. reserv. 
     
    00100026       Supplier Number:  281u0752    (THIS IS THE Fulltext) 
  /TI  Taxing Time For South African Wineries 
  JN=  Africa News Service 
  PD=, PY=  Oct. 07, 1996  17:17 E.T. 
  DT=, RT=, LA=  DOCUMENT TYPE: Newswire   RECORD TYPE: Fulltext   LANGUAGE: English 
    WORD COUNT:        504 
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  Johannesburg (October 7, 1996), Mail and Guardian via Africa News - 
    Heavily taxed at home, South Africa's wine producers are 
    increasingly concerned about illegal imports and exports of 
    spirits, which could be costing the country about R9- billion a 
    year in lost revenue, according to some estimates. 
     
  /TX  Stellenbosch Farmers Winery (SFW) chairman Jeff Malherbe said in his 
    annual report this week that this amount was more than "three times 
    the country's current budget for the Reconstruction and Development 
    Programme. 
     
    "Business looks to the government to create a stable environment 
    with clear regulating policies within which sustainable economic 
    development can take place. It is, therefore, gratifying to note 
    (...) 
    SFW said its export sales had grown by 38% in volume over the last 
    year and were expected to show continued growth. "In order to meet 
    this expected increase, SFW will assess the potential of joint 
    ventures with international partners," SFW managing director Frans 
    Stroebel said. 
     
    He said SFW was now exporting to 50 countries, with Germany the 
    largest market. Exports to Africa had grown "significantly", mainly 
    to Kenya and Zimbabwe. 
    Distillers' managing director Jan Scannell said exports had risen 
    22% in volume and 46% in value to R84-million in the past year and 
    this was expected to be maintained in the coming year. To meet 
    overall increased demand, Distillers had approved projects worth 
    R47-million in the coming year, mainly to improve efficiency and 
    quality assurance. 
     
    by Lynda Loxton 
     
    Copyright 1996 Mail and Guardian. Copyright 1996 Africa News 
    Service. All  rights reserved. 
     
     
  /DE, CN=  COUNTRY NAMES:   AFRICA; GERMANY; KENYA; SOUTH AFRICA; ZIMBABWE 
  /DE, IN=  INDUSTRY NAMES:  FINANCE; BUSINESS 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S UNDERSEA(1W)CABLE
/CO CO Company Name1,2,3 Word S SA(W)INTERNATIONAL/CO
/DE DE Descriptor2,4 Word
& Phrase		 S PUBLIC(W)AFFAIRS/DE
S INTERNATIONAL(W)ISSUES/DE
/GN GN Geographic Name2,3 Word S WEST(W)AFRICA/GN
/LP LP Lead Paragraph Word S TELECOMMUNICATIONS/LP
/PN PN Industry Name2,3 Word S COMMUNICATIONS(W)TECHNOLOGIES/PN
/TI TI Title Word S CABLE(W)SYSTEM/TI
/TX TX Text Word S SA(W)FAR(W)EAST(W)SYSTEM/TX

1 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

2 Contains INFOSORT terms (see HELP INFOSORT).

3 Available only in File 606.

4 Also /DF.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
AA= AA Supplier Accession Number Phrase S AA=I0A37D0D084FE11D9AA84?
None AZ DIALOG Accession Number
CN= CN Country Name5 Phrase S CN=KENYA
CO= CO Company Name1,2,3 Phrase S CO=SA INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS?
DL= DL Dateline3 Word
& Phrase		 S DL=JOHANNESBURG
S DL=CAPE TOWN?
DT= DT Document Type Phrase S DT=NEWSWIRE
DY= DY Publication Day3 Phrase S DY=FRIDAY
EN= EN Event Name2,3,6 Phrase S EN=INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
GN= GN Geographic Name1,2,3 Phrase S GN=WEST AFRICA
IN= IN Industry Name1,2,3 Phrase S IN=FINANCE
JC= JC Journal Code3 Phrase S JC=AN
JN= JN Journal Name Phrase S JN=AFRICA NEWS
LA= LA Language Phrase S LA=ENGLISH
MO= MO Publication Month3 Phrase S MO=JUNE
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19990618
PN= PN Industry Name1,2,3,6 Phrase S PN=MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RT= RT Record Type Phrase S RT=FULLTEXT
None SO Source Information
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
None WD Word Count

5 Available only in File 806.

6 Also searchable using /DE.


LIMIT [top]

Sets and terms may be limited by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /LP, /SH, /TI, /TX (e.g., S S5/TI), as well as by the following features:
SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/LONG Word Count of 1,000 words or more S S2/LONG
/SHORT Word Count of less than 1,000 words S S4/SHORT
/YYYY Publication Year S S2/1999


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
AA, JN, PD, PY, TI SORT S5/ALL/PD


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK AU S3


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

User-defined formats may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. TYPE S4/TI,PD/1-5


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
 DIALOGWEB
FORMAT		 RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, and Word Count
3 Medium Bibliographic Citation and Word Count
4 -- Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count
5 -- Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count
6 Short Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7 Long Bibliographic Citation, Text, and Word Count
8 Free Title, Publication Date, Word Count, and Indexing
9 Full Full Record
K -- KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 00100009/9
PRINT 00100026/9


Rates [top]

Rates For File: Africa News (June 1999-present)[606]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.04
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                    $3.75
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $22.47
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $17.12
ALERT (Weekly)                    $12.57
ALERT (Daily)                      $3.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $12.57
ALERT (Intraday)                   $3.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints       20

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.40    $1.40
     3    $1.40    $1.40
     4    $1.78    $1.78
     5    $1.78    $1.78
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.97    $2.97
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.20    $3.20
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
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       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

Rates For File: Africa News (1996-May 1999)[806]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.04
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.40    $1.40
     3    $1.40    $1.40
     4    $1.78    $1.78
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     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.97    $2.97
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KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00
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