AFP | Agence France Presse

Agence France Presse is a global news organization that ensures fast, comprehensive, and verified coverage of current events and themes that shape our daily lives. Agence France Presse has an unparalleled network of journalists in 151 countries and is a global leader in digital investigations. Agence France Presse has 2400 employees from 100 different countries, covering the world in six languages and possessing unique multimedia production quality in videos, texts, photos, and computer graphics.

Agence France Presse (AFP), also known as Agence France Presse, is one of the four major global news agencies in the West, alongside Reuters, Associated Press, and United Press. It was founded in 1944 and headquartered in Paris, France. Its predecessor was the "Havas News Agency" founded by Charles Havas in 1835. Agence France Presse is the oldest among the four major Western news agencies. In December 2018, the "2018 World Brand 500" compiled by the World Brand Lab was released, and the French news agency ranked 252nd.

Agence France Presse is nominally an independent newspaper consortium, but in reality it is the official French news agency.