The 10th edition of the Sotigui Awards, which honors the best African actors and actresses, took place on November 15 in Ouagadougou. The SOTIGUI D'OR was awarded to Senegalese actor Ibrahim Mbaye for his role in Simon Moutairou's film Ni Chaînes Ni Maîtres (No Chains, No Masters). Ibrahim Mbaye also...
Leaders of French-speaking sub-Saharan African TV channels write to CAF
The heads of RTS (Senegal), RTI and NCI (Ivory Coast), CRTV (Cameroon), RTB (Burkina Faso), ORTM (Mali), ORTN (Niger), RTG (Guinea), and GGT (Gabon) and ONAMA (Chad) have joined forces in a collective to denounce, in a letter addressed to the President of the African Football Confederation, Patrice Motsepe, the...
The CANAL+ campaign for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Benin
To announce the broadcast of the upcoming 2025 Africa Cup of Nations matches on CANAL+ in Benin, the Wallace agency created a campaign celebrating Benin's unity, pride, and cultural richness, drawing inspiration from local sayings:" Derrière Guépards y’a Tantie" ("Behind the Cheetahs there's Auntie"), "...y’a Dada" ("...there's Dada"), "...y’a Zem"...
The CANAL+ group will broadcast all CAN 2025 matches throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
The CANAL+ Group has announced that its subsidiary MultiChoice, via SuperSport, has reached an agreement with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the broadcasting rights to the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 (CAN 2025) in English- and Portuguese-speaking sub-Saharan African countries. Thanks to a long-standing contract, CANAL+...
GOOGLE to pay $40 million to South African media outlets
(AFP press release) Google has agreed to pay more than $40 million to South African media outlets, many of which are struggling in the digital age, the country's competition authority announced Thursday, accusing the California-based giant of disadvantaging local media. The US company, a subsidiary of Alphabet, has agreed to provide...
Dr. Wlika airing on CANAL+MAGIC since November 13
Last July, Sonia ZAIN, Head of Fiction Projects for Africa at CANAL+ International, gave an update on Adweknow about the fiction projects in production within the CANAL+ group and announced the upcoming broadcast of Dr Wlicka, a new original series produced by Alex Ogou. This series has been airing since...
TV5MONDE supports the creation of the Cotonou Comedy Festival
As a partner of major African cultural events and French-speaking artists, TV5MONDE is supporting the creation of the Cotonou Comedy Festival (Benin), which will take place from December 1 to 6, 2025. Two shows will be broadcast on TV5Monde and on the TV5MONDE+ platform, ensuring them global visibility. (Press release)...
LCI and TF1 suspended in MALI
(AFP dispatch) Mali's High Authority for Communication (HAC) has suspended French channels LCI and TF1, accusing them of "unverified claims and falsehoods" relating to jihadists in the Sahelian country, according to a decision seen by AFP on Friday .The services of LCI and TF1 television channels are withdrawn from the packages...