Four years after the date on which African countries were supposed to switch to DTT (June 17, 2015), the Togolese government's website announced at the end of October 2019 that members of parliament had voted on the draft law on audiovisual communications. This bill regulates the implementation of digital terrestrial...
Interview with Simon Mbelek, Head of Communications and Public Relations at JUMIA Cameroon
Can you tell us about Jumia's activities in Africa? JUMIA is the leading e-commerce platform in Africa. When we embarked on this adventure seven years ago, we looked around the world and noticed that e-commerce already had a foothold in Europe, the United States, Latin America, and China. So we...
NCI, the New Ivorian Channel, is coming soon!
In a few weeks, NCI (Nouvelle Chaîne Ivoirienne) will become the first private Ivorian television channel to launch on DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) after A+ Ivoire, which began broadcasting last January. NCI will occupy channel 4 on DTT and will also be available at the end of this year on...
Dakar welcomes West Africa's first Orange Digital Center
As connectivity providers, telecom operators based on the continent have a role to play in digital development. After Tunisia, Orange has chosen Senegal to host a second Orange Digital Center, and Dakar will be home to this new digital hub. The first center of its kind in West Africa, the...
Moov Côte d’Ivoire launches two competitions to support entrepreneurship and technological innovation
On October 23, 2019, Moov Côte d'Ivoire, a mobile phone operator, officially launched the second edition of the "Moov Innovation" competition dedicated to youth entrepreneurship and innovation in the local ICT sector. "Moov Innovation" is a program that consists of two initiatives: a mobile app competition and a competition dedicated...
AFD Digital Challenge: a new edition for the development of sustainable cities
After an edition focused on female inclusion, the French Development Agency (AFD) officially launched the fourth edition of its Digital Challenge. For this new edition, organized jointly with the Digital Africa label, the AFD wanted to combine the challenge of digital transition with that of sustainable cities, in line with...
StarTimes connects villages in Ivory Coast
After several West African countries, StarTimes' project to provide satellite TV access to 10,000 African villages is now expanding to Côte d'Ivoire. This project involves equipping 10,000 villages across Africa with satellite television. To this end, each village receives two projectors, a 32-inch digital TV, and 20 StarTimes decoder kits....
RFI inaugurates its Mandinka and Fulfulde editorial offices in Senegal
On Tuesday, October 22, Marie-Christine Saragosse, CEO of France Médias Monde, inaugurated RFI's new offices in Mandenkan and Fulfulde in Dakar. After several months of construction, the brand-new offices and studios of Radio France Internationale's Mandinka and Fulfulde editorial teams were officially inaugurated on Tuesday. For Marie-Christine Saragosse, CEO of...
Togo: HAAC launches call for tenders to expand local audiovisual landscape
In Togo, the High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) has launched a call for tenders for the installation and operation of new private radio stations in the country. The HAAC aims to expand and enrich the local audiovisual media landscape, mainly in prefectures such as Golfe, Agoè-Nyivé, and Agou....
Interview with Diane Audrey Ngako, founder of the Omenkart agency in charge of the Douala Digital Show
Diane Audrey Ngako is the founder and CEO of the Omenkart agency in Cameroon. The agency also includes Herman Kom Kamdam and Laeticia Minko, who are all in charge of organizing the first edition of the Douala Digital Show. Can you tell us about the Douala Digital Show? The Douala...