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The Africa Report

Pan-African, Paris-based business and politics outlet (Francophone-rooted, English-language)

Owned byJeune Afrique Media Group (JAMG), a privately held Paris-based group that also publishes Jeune Afrique and Africa Business+ and runs the Africa CEO Forum. The group was founded by Béchir Ben Yahmed, and his son Amir Ben Yahmed is its chairman. I did not verify detailed shareholder information.
FundingMostly commercial. Revenue comes from digital subscriptions (a paywall was introduced in 2021), advertising and sponsorship, and the parent group's events business, including the Africa CEO Forum. I found no evidence of state or party funding.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

The Africa Report was launched in 2005 by Jeune Afrique Media Group as an English-language quarterly print magazine, with Patrick Smith as its first editor. Jeune Afrique, the parent group's French-language flagship, was founded in Tunis in 1960 by Béchir Ben Yahmed and later moved to Paris. In 2019 The Africa Report added a full digital platform, and in 2021 it began charging for access through a subscription paywall. The group also publishes Africa Business+ and organizes the Africa CEO Forum, which links the outlet to the business and political elites it covers. Its coverage is generally centrist and pro-business, focused on investment, governance and elections, and it aims to appeal to Africa's political and corporate decision-makers. Critics of the wider Jeune Afrique group have raised concerns about close ties to the governments and leaders it covers, and about commercial and events relationships that can blur the line between editorial and business interests. Its coverage of U.S. policy is framed around African interests and tends to report developments rather than take partisan positions, so it does not have a settled pro- or anti-Trump slant. Details come from general reference sources and my searches did not turn up recent, outlet-specific analysis, so the stance assessment is provisional.

Sources

  1. The Africa Report - Wikipedia
  2. Jeune Afrique Media Group - Wikipedia
  3. The Africa Report - About us
  4. The Africa Report - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  5. Jeune Afrique - Wikipedia

Profile compiled 2026-11-02; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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