The main editing centre is located in Harare, Zimbabwe, and there are also full- time offices in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria.

In Africa, IPS disseminates via a number of service providers to clients who include a growing list of media, NGO and institutions in many countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.

The leading private independent news media in 10 Southern Africa countries receive IPS material through the MISANET, an e-mail distribution network of MISA (the Media Institute for Southern Africa). Within South Africa, IPS distributes its material via SAPA, the South African Press Association, which has dedicated and satellite links to the country's mainstream media.

Through SABANEWS, a rip-and-read radio news service prepared twice a day by IPS Africa on behalf of 10 public radio station members of the Southern African Broadcasting Association (SABA), IPS material is made available to some 100 million listeners in the SABA region.

The E-mail address of the editing centre in Harare is : ipshre@ips.org.zw Urls: -http://demiurge.wn.apc.org/misa/new(An archive updated daily of material produced by IPS Africa as well as by other members of the Media Institute for Southern Africa --MISA). IPS' Africa databases can also be accessed via SANGONet by e-mail.