I am a developer of the afnews R package. The package contains functions Africa news data collection. A package to scraping all news of all countries of Africa. The news is by country and by date range. The data returned are: title, contents, comments, journal name and category.

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Installation

You can install the released version of afnews from GITHUB with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("armelsoubeiga/afnews")