TV channels are displayed in Abidjan

In recent days, the streets of Abidjan have been flooded with visuals from communication campaigns launched by two major players in the Ivorian audiovisual sector. The first campaign promotes LIFE TV through visuals featuring the hosts of its main programs: LIFE TALK, LIFE WKD, LIFEMUSIC, and WILLY A MIDI. This...

Group Vivendi Africa rolls out CanalBox in Brazzaville

The Vivendi Africa Group, a new player in the African telecoms market, has announced the launch of CanalBox, its FTTH ultra-fast broadband internet service, in Brazzaville, two years after Pointe Noire. Three offerings will be rolled out across the country, providing fiber optic access to the entire population: Canalbox Start,...

African Digital Week held in Abidjan

After being canceled due to the health crisis, African Digital Week is back in 2021 with the main theme "Augmented Africa." Organized by the Groupement des opérateurs du secteur des TIC (Gotic) and the Confédération Générale des Entreprises de Côte d'Ivoire (CGECI), the 2021 edition of African Digital Week will...

MEDIAWAN, new developments in Africa?

According to La Lettre A, Mediawan, founded by Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse, and Pierre-Antoine Capton, is about to finalize the acquisition of a major production company in Ivory Coast and set up a division dedicated to Mediawan's development in Africa, which will be headed by François Thiellet, former director of...

IPTV Cameroon in the first quarter of 2021 +15.9%

Advertisers' gross advertising investments increased by 15.9% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the first quarter of 2020, according to the Omedia institute, which conducts monthly advertising monitoring of the CRTV and CANAL2 television channels in Cameroon. Five advertisers appeared in the TOP 10 in January, February, and...

Death of Bechir Ben Yahmed, founder of Jeune Afrique

Bechir Ben Yahmed, founder of Jeune Afrique magazine in Tunisia in 1960, died on Monday, May 3, from COVID at the age of 93. Born in Djerba in 1928, Bechir Ben Yahmed launched Afrique Action in 1960, which became Jeune Afrique a few months later. Founded to support the emergence...