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Searching Africa News Search Archive Searching You may use the words "AND" and "OR" when searching the archive to specify if words are optional or required in the result. Three examples are listed below. In the first example, the result will consist of articles that contain the words food AND hunger. In the second example, articles containing food OR hunger will be retuirned. Note that the default operation is to insert AND between words so that the first and third examples are the same.
Advance Search The advance search option allows you to perform better targetted searches. The provides options for specifing a search string, source of article, a date range to search specified by a start and end data, region to search, author of article, and the type. Source: The article source is the publisher of the article. This is the name of the newspaper, journal, magazine, etc. the published the article. Dates: Dates must be entered in Year-Month-Day format. (example: 2003-01-25 for January 25, 2003) Region: region must be specified as North, South, East, West, Horn of Africa, or Great Lakes. Click here for a list of countries in each region. Type: The type of story is specified by Review, Interview, report, or article. Note that most of our stories are articles. There are a few interviews.
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