Africa Alert is a current awareness service designed to keep business users, NGOs and governments up to date with key business and economic news from across Africa. The primary objective of Africa Alert is to cut out the noise by delivering only appropriate content . Instead of trawling through a long list of results from web searches or having costly subscriptions to professional information services, Africa Alert users receive only the most relevant news that meets their specific criteria. One of the key differentiators for Africa Alert is the use of human analysts to select information which meets the clients’ search parameters. The content is gathered from thousands of sources both local and international. Articles are available in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic, with auto translation for non-English language content.