The African Nations Championship is taking place in Cameroon and began on Saturday, January 16.
It will end on Sunday, February 7. Originally scheduled for 2020, the CHAN was postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19. This competition pits the sixteen best African national teams against each other in four qualifying groups:
Group A: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Zimbabwe.
Group B: Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Niger.
Group C: Morocco, Rwanda, Togo, Uganda.
Group D: Guinea, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia.
It should be noted that among the major French-speaking countries of sub-Saharan Africa, neither Senegal nor Côte d'Ivoire have qualified for this competition.
RFI and CANAL+ have decided to broadcast the highlights of this competition, which is eagerly awaited by Africa's many soccer fans. CANAL+ will broadcast the entire competition on CANAL+SPORT 1 according to the schedule below:
The broadcast of the matches will be complemented by numerous programs dedicated to the competition, also broadcast on CANAL+ Sport 1, such as Talent d'Afrique spécial CHAN and CHAN l'émission.
RFI, for its part, will bring this sporting event to life for its listeners with its special correspondents and reporters, who will cover all the highlights in news programs and sports magazines, as well as on its digital platforms.
Eric Mamruth, Hugo Moissonnier, and Olivier Pron, RFI's special correspondents, will be covering the competition with the support of sports correspondents Joël Wadem and Fabien Essiane in news programs and in the Radio Foot Internationale and Mondial Sports magazines.
The Radio Foot Internationale team, led by Annie Gasnier, will offer listeners three special programs from Douala on Monday, January 18, Tuesday, January 19, and Thursday, January 21, which will also be broadcast live on Facebook. Journalist Ndiassé Sambe, videographers Benjamin Avayou and Dominique Fiant, and photojournalist Pierre-René Worms will be providing exclusive coverage on social media and surrfi.fr throughout the competition.