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AfriSpeech/afrinews

Name: afrinews
Creator: AfriSpeech
License: cc-by-nc-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:text-generation, task_categories:fill-mask, language:en, language:fr, language:ar, language:pt, language:sw, license:cc-by-nc-4.0, size_categories:10M<n<100M, format:parquet, modality:text, library:datasets, library:dask, library:polars, library:mlcroissant

AfriNews: Pan-African Multilingual News Dataset AfriNews is a comprehensive dataset of news articles collected from over 230 prominent news websites across 47 African countries. Dataset Structure Subsets Default (default): Contains all articles across all countries and languages. Country + Language Subsets (<Country_ISO>_<lang>): Articles from a specific country in a specific language (e.g. Cameroon_CM_fr, Cameroon_CM_en, Morocco_MA_ar… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/AfriSpeech/afrinews.

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Author / organization	AfriSpeech
License (as declared)	cc-by-nc-4.0
Downloads	997 (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	6 October 2026
Last updated at source	17 October 2026

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