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Top 10 Most Popular Websites In Africa by Jaydruke(m): 11:35pm On Jun 29, 2014
10. Djelfa.info
Djelfa is the popular Algerian website and is positioned at no 10 of the most popular websites in Africa. The website covers mostly Algerian news and in addition, newsfrom the Arab and rest of the world.It is the second most visited website in Algeria and among the top sites in the Arab world.

9. First Rand bank (fnb.co.za)
FNB is the only banking website that made the list. The bank provides personal, commercial and corporate banking services to morethan 7.2 million customers across South Africa and it uses its website to facilitate several banking services to its customers. First Rand Bank Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of First Rand Limited, and has a number of divisions, including Rand Merchant Bank (the investment bank), FNB (the retail and commercial bank) and WesBank (the instalment finance provider). The banking website has alexa ranking of 1970.

8. Vanguardngr.com
Vanguard is aNigeria newspaperwith an online portal published by the Vanguard Media Limited since its establishment in 1984. The newspaper is one of the few in Nigeria that is considered independent of political control, theothers being Thisday, The Punch, and The Guardian.

7. Echoroukonline.com
Echorouk Online news site is an Algerian news website that provides immediate and continuous coverage of events in Algeria and the world. The website is published in Arabic, English and French. Echorouk Online was established in 2005 after sunrise administration’s decision to create an electronic interface of the paper edition to enable a slice of readers on the Web, as well as the Algerian community abroad to check out thecontents of the newspaper. It has subsequently become more and more popular and with an Alexa ranking of 1,407, it is one of the most popularwebsites in Africa.

6. Bidorbuy.co.za
Bidorbuy.co.za is a South African online marketplace that brings buyers and sellers together to tradealmost anything through online auctions and fixed price sales. It’s unique nature of operation has made the website one of the well known and visited sites in South Africa and Africa at large. The website was launched in August, 1999 and is the largest site of its kind operating in South Africa. The website works in such a way that any user who wants to sell goods or services can list items for sale on the site. Sellers sets a start time,end time, pricing information and provide a detailed description and images for the items they are selling. Other users can then browse the site and bid on or buy items they are interested in. Shouldthere be a sale, the bidorbuy system puts the buyer and seller in contact with each other. It is up to the two parties to conclude the deal, which normally involves arranging payment and shipment ofthe goods purchased. Many sellers are now making a business out of trading on the bidorbuy website in South Africa.

5. News24.com
News24 is Southern Africa and Africa’s premier online news resource. It is one of the 10most popular African websiteswith round-the-clock coverage to bring you local and international news as it happens and when it happens. The South Africa’s most visited website is headquartered in Cape Town with an Alexa ranking of 1246.

4. Nairaland.com
Nairaland is an online community (forum) founded by Seun Osewa in March 2005. Nairaland currently has over 1 million registered users.In addition to being among themost visited websites in Africa, Nairaland is the most popular local content website in Nigeria. The website covers mostly Nigerian topics, posts and threads started byusers and often takes the form of debates and discussions.

3. Masrawy.com
In what would be described as Egyptian top 3, Masrawy is an Egyptian news website and the 3rd most visited website in Africa. The website covers wide range of news including political, economical, artistic and technology related news, classifieds.

2. Akhbarak.net
Akhbarak news site was established in 2003 with the purpose of collecting the entire Egyptian news. The website combines news from different sources without any interference from any individuals and arranged according to their importance. It groups similar news together giving the reader the opportunity toget to know the latest news from different sources. Akhbarak news website uses some algorithms to arrange news. The arrangement depends on some of the most important news specifications, number of members who visited and read the story. Ranking also depends on when the story was published and its source. It has alexa of 825.

1. Youm7.com
Youm7 is the most popular websitein Africa. It is the most visited with an alexa of 520 as at April, 2013. It is an daily Egyptian newspaper that is privately owned. It started off as a weekly newspaper in October, 2008 and since May, 2011, it has been published daily. It is published in Arabic language. The newspaper was also twice selected by Forbes Middle East as having the most effective news website in the Middle East. Youm7 reportedly is the most-visited website in Egyptand the most popular in Africa.

source: http://answersafrica.com/most-popular-african-websites.html

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