The Pictures of the Continent space was designed as an African Picture and Video Exchange.  The thematic news spaces, which APA has in common with traditional Agencies, groups its Africa-focused websites on Business (Wealth, Enterprises, Agriculture, Fishing, Handicraft, Tourism), Raw materials, Integration (Interests),  Politics, Elections (Campaigns, Results, Political Landscape, Leadership),  Culture   (Art, Agenda, Events, Multimedia),  Diplomacy  (Conflicts, Crises, Reconstruction, Organisations, Prevention), Disasters, Gender,  Nature   (Environment), Education,  Health, Social, Societal Events and Sports (Football, Hand Ball, Basketball, Athletics, Rugby, Volleyball, Wrestling, Boxing, Martial Arts and Stars).

APA is also a space to monitor the global Interests of a future-orientated fledging Africa, follow-up activities of the African Union and its bodies as well as Regional Economic Communities  (CER, CEN-SAD,  UMA…) and various projects and programmes - the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as well as the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).

At geographical level, APA is a universal Agency with Coordination Offices covering each large African Region and its most significant Diasporas and well as deported or migrant communities across the world. 

 

This particularly includes West Africa, where at least one correspondent covers each member country of the Economic Community West African States (ECOWAS). 

The coverage, which is coordinated from the Dakar-based head office, includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde,  Cote d'Ivoire,  Gambia, Ghana,  Guinea,  Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger,  Nigeria,  Senegal,  Sierra Leone and Togo.

The Central Africa Office supervises news collection in  Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic (CAR),  The Democratic Republic of Congo  (DRC),  Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe and Chad. These are mainly the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) member states.

Three other Offices share the area of The Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC). 

They respectively supervise East Africa  (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia,  Kenya, Uganda,  Sudan  and   Somalia), Southern Africa  (South Africa,  Angola,  Botswana,  Lesotho,  Malawi,  Mozambique,  Namibia,  Swaziland,  Tanzania,  Zambia,  Zimbabwe) and  the Indian Ocean  (Mauritius,  Madagascar,  Seychelles,  Mayotte,  Reunion,  Islamic Republic of the Comoros,  Sainte Helene  and  Diego Garcia.

APA - which is also established in three other continents to serve the African press (Communication) and any  Net surfer (NTICS) interested in Africa - is particularly present in  Europe  (Germany,  Belgium,  Spain,  France, United Kingdom ), the Americas (the United States,  Canada), and in  Asia  (China). 

After settling in Mauritania  and  Tunisia  from the very launch of its operation, APA is also gradually spreading to the rest of the Maghreb  and  the Machrek with its natural targets being Egypt, but also   Libya, Algeria,  Morocco,  the Azores,  Ceuta  and  Melila, Scattered Islands  and  Madeira, all being authentically African entities beyond a purely historical and geographical perspective…

But Apanews.net is, moreover, a space dedicated to Alternative Information on its specialised websites on Food, Communication, Development, the activity of local Communities (Decentralisation),  Futurology   (Futures),  Governance, Humanity (Human Right, Citizenship) Generations (Mother-Childhood, Youths, Adults and Old Age People),  Memory   (History, Heritage), Migrations, Sciences, Technologies, Publications, Announcements, Sundry Services and Diffusions (IGAs, NGOs, Civil Society, Embassies).

Finally, APANEWS is a Forum for the African Debate, the world’s only editorial space where experienced agency workers invite you after-work to share their reading of events through Analyses, Commentaries, Reportages, Travel Accounts, Interviews, Chronicles, Columns, Moods and Oddities, which are all subjected to your interactive appreciation. This friendly African space is also open to your Contributions, Discussion Forums and Citizen Remarks, while sparing an entertainment window for Humour, Quotations as well as African Proverbs and Tales