Jeune Afrique


Jeune Afrique is a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine, founded in 1960 in Tunis and subsequently published in Paris. It is the most widely read pan-African magazine. It is also a book publisher, under the imprint "Les Éditions du Jaguar".
Starting in 2000, Jeune Afrique has also maintained a news website.

History and profile

Jeune Afrique was co-founded by Béchir Ben Yahmed and other Tunisian intellectuals in Tunis on 17 October 1960. The founders of the weekly moved to Paris due to the strict censorship during the presidency of Habib Bourgiba. It covers the political, economic and cultural spheres of Africa, with an emphasis on francophone Africa and the Maghreb.
From 2000 to early 2006, the magazine went by the name Jeune Afrique L'intelligent.
Jeune Afrique is published by Groupe Jeune Afrique, which also publishes the monthly French-language lifestyle magazine Afrique Magazine, the bi-monthly French-language newsmagazine La Revue and the English-language news- The Africa Report.
The headquarters of the magazine in Paris has been attacked in France two times, once, in 1986, and the other time, in January 1987. Responsibility for the latter attack was claimed by the French nationalist group, Charles Martel.
The magazine has an edition published for Tunisia, which has been suspended several times for covering sensitive news concerning the country. For instance, from July 1984 to January 1985 it was banned in the country. In June 1989 the magazine was also banned in Morocco. During this period it had a circulation of 13,000 copies in the country.