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Media monitoring in East Africa

We monitor East Africa's newspapers, radio, television, online news and social media, in English and Swahili, for organisations working across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and their neighbours.

A region of strong national media

East Africa has large national media groups alongside busy local-language radio. Swahili coverage in Kenya and Tanzania, and vernacular stations elsewhere, often carry a story before the English-language press does.

Languages

English and Swahili as standard, with other local languages set up for your scope.

What you receive

Outlets we monitor across East Africa

80 outlets in our directory, from our clients' coverage and our own source research. The full list is in our coverage directory.

Print

  • Business Daily (Kenya)
  • Monitor (Daily) Uganda
  • New Vision (Uganda)
  • The Guardian (Tanzania)
  • Daily Nation (Kenya)
  • The Standard (Kenya)
  • Daily News (Tanzania)
  • The East African
  • The New Times
  • Saturday Nation
  • Taifa Leo
  • Bukedde (Uganda)
  • Daily News Saturday (Tanzania)
  • People Daily (Kenya)
  • The Standard (Saturday)
  • The Star (Kenya)
  • Dar Life
  • Sunday Nation
  • The Nairobian
  • Habarileo
  • Nipashe
  • The Standard (Sunday)
  • Capital (Ethiopia)
  • Sunday News (Tanzania)

Television and radio

  • Radio Jambo
  • Classic 105
  • NTV (Kenya)
  • Kameme FM
  • KTN
  • KTN News
  • Bukkede TV
  • Capital FM Kenya
  • CBS Radio
  • Citizen TV
  • Clouds FM
  • Clouds TV
  • East Africa TV (EATV)
  • EBC (Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation)
  • Fana Broadcasting Corporate
  • ITV Tanzania
  • KBC Channel 1
  • KBC Radio Taifa
  • KFM Uganda
  • NBS TV
  • NTV Uganda
  • Radio Citizen
  • Radio Uganda (UBC)
  • Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA)

Online news

  • Addis Standard
  • Business Daily Africa
  • Capital FM News
  • ChimpReports
  • Citizen Digital
  • Daily Monitor Online
  • Daily News Online (Tanzania)
  • IGIHE
  • IPP Media
  • KBC Digital
  • Kenyans.co.ke
  • KT Press
  • Millard Ayo
  • Mwananchi Online
  • Nation Africa
  • New Vision Online
  • Nile Post
  • The Citizen Online (Tanzania)
  • The Independent (Uganda)
  • The New Times Online
  • The Observer (Uganda)
  • The Reporter Ethiopia Online
  • The Standard Online
  • The Star Online (Kenya)

Countries we monitor in East Africa

We set up monitoring in any of these countries on request, scoped to the outlets, languages and topics you need.

Questions

Can you monitor a country that is not listed here?

Yes. We set up monitoring in any African country on request, scoped to the outlets, languages and topics you need. Tell us the market and we will confirm the sources we can cover before you commit.

How quickly will I hear about a story?

Alerts go out at the moment a story publishes, across every channel in your scope, rather than in a digest the next morning.

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