TOP 50 NEWSPAPERS IN AFRICA BASED ON WEB RANKINGS

The top newspapers in Africa are based on “web rankings”. Those rankings, according to www.4im.com, in turn are based upon an algorithm including “three unbiased and independent web metrics” extracted from three different search engines: Google Page Rank, Yahoo Inbound Links, Alexa Traffic Rank.
The website says the aim is to provide an approximate popularity ranking of worldwide newspapers based upon the popularity of their websites. There is a serious shortcoming in this approach, because the measure of popularity of the print publications is totally different—and a ranking based on ComScore produces a totally different result. Thus while Mail & Guardian online is top in South Africa, its circulation is much smaller than several other quality dailies and weeklies. The Daily Nation online, by ComScore ranking, places third in Africa. The ranking here, however, is a good starting point.

Rank	Name of the Newspaper	Country
1.	Al-Ahram	Egypt
2.	The Times	South Africa
3.	Mail and Guardian Online	South Africa
4.	The New Vision	Uganda
5.	Die Burger	South Africa
6.	Al Wafd	Egypt
7.	Al Ahram Weekly	Egypt
8.	El Khabar	Algeria
9.	Independent Online	South Africa
10.	Ech – Chorouk El – Youmi	Algeria
11.	Al – Masry Al – Youm	Egypt
12.	This Day	Nigeria
13.	The Daily Nation	Kenya
14.	El Watan	Algeria
15.	Cape Argus	South Africa
16.	Liberte’	Algeria
17.	Akhbar El Youm	Egypt
18.	The Monitor	Uganda
19.	Al Messa	Egypt
20.	Business Day	South Africa
21.	The post	Zambia
22.	Le Quotidien d’Oran	Algeria
23.	Al Fadjr	Algeria
24.	Business Day	Nigeria
25.	New Times	Rwanda
26.	La Presse	Tunisia
27.	The Herald	Zimbabwe
28.	El Moudjahid	Algeria
29.	La Tribune	Algeria
30.	Ech Chaab	Algeria
31.	Aljamahiria	Libya
32.	The Namibian	Namibia
33.	The East African	Kenya
34.	Times of Zambia	Zambia
35.	Le Renouveau	Tunisia
36.	Al Shames	Libya
37.	Zambia Daily Mail	Zambia
38.	Republikein	Namibia
39.	Business Today Egypt	Egypt
40.	The Arusha Times	Tanzania
41.	The Punch	Nigeria
42.	Business Report	South Africa
43.	Ennahar El Djadid	Algeria
44.	Al Gomhuria	Egypt
45.	Cape Times	South Africa
46.	Nigerian Tribune	Nigeria
47.	The Guardian	Nigeria
48.	Pretoria News	South Africa
49.	Vanguard	Nigeria
50.	The Mercury	South Africa

Source: www.4im.com.top newspapers/africa.htm