It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

sourceAFRICA is a web platform that can be used as an investigative tool, it was developed and is maintained by ANCIR. On SourceAFRICA people have access to 115 126 documents (as of October) from 47 organisations. The platfrom has about 137 contributors including the Mail & Guardian, Oxpeckers, Daily Trust and Pesa Check. People have access to documents ranging from cancellation of family planning in Tanzania, the South African Mining Charter and Kenya Data Protection Bill 2018 and many more.