• Africa Confidential. Africa Confidential was founded in 1960. There was a great need for trusted interpretation of events in the African continent and this was provided by the fortnightly report, then called by its year of publication - Africa 1960, then Africa 1961, until the late 1960s when the title became Africa Confidential.

http://www.africa-confidential.com/

• Africa Online News - African news, with a focus on Cote d-IvoIre, Ghana, Kenya, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zynbabwe.

http://bamako.africaonline.com/

• AFP. AFP is the world's oldest established news agency, founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, the father of global journalism.

http://www.afp.com/english/home/

• AFX News. Real time, independent and trusted international economic news coverage to professional and private investor communities in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.

http://www.afxnews.com/

• AlertNet. Reuters' AlertNet provides global news, communications and logistics services to the international disaster relief community and the public. Reuters 150 years' experience reporting from disaster zones around the world allows AlertNet to give disaster relief organisations reliable information, fast.

http://www.alertnet.org/

• AllAfrica.com. AllAfrica Global Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide. Registered in Mauritius, with offices in Johannesburg, Dakar, Abuja and Washington, D.C., AllAfrica is one of a family of companies that aggregate, produce and distribute news from across Africa to tens of millions of end users.

http://allafrica.com/

• ARNEWS. US Army News Service: http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/news/

• Business Wire. Business Wire disseminates full-text news announcements from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide (our members) to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. With more than four decades of experience and leadership, Business Wire is a trusted source for journalists, investors, regulatory agencies, and communications professionals.

http://www.businesswire.com/

• CorpWatch. News, investigations and analysis from watchdog organization critical of corporate
power. http://www.corpwatch.org/

- Afghanistan, Inc.: A CorpWatch Investigative Report: click here

- From Mercenaries to Peacemakers? Scandals Confront Military Security Industry. By David Phinney, Special to CorpWatch, 29 November 2005: click here

- Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin. By Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch, 4 November 2005: click here

• Defense News. Defense News is the authoritative, independent, professional news source for the world's defense decision-makers.

http://www.defensenews.com/

• The Financial Times: http://news.ft.com/

• Global Beat. The Global Beat is a web resource center primarily intended for journalists and editors who cover international issues, as well as scholars, professionals and others interested in learning more about the critical international issues we cover.Ultimately, the Global Beat hopes to improve coverage of international issues by continually challenging and enhancing journalists' awareness of global security concerns.

http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/

• Global Gateway. The alternative newslink Inter Press Service, the world's leading provider of information on global issues, is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to 1,200 outlets. IPS focuses its news coverage on the events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations.

http://www.ips.org/ips_homepage.htm

-Conflict Watch-Africa.   http://www.ips.org/Critical/Watch/Watch.htm

• GlobalSecurity.org. It focuses on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/