CANAL+ has renewed its long-standing partnership with the UEFA Champions League for three more seasons. This means that UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup matches will continue to be broadcast in French on CANAL+ for subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa, exclusively until 2024. To mark the occasion, CANAL+SPORT channels will...
New entrepreneurship centers created on the continent
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the International Chamber of Commerce have jointly launched Entrepreneurship Centers in Africa, under the theme "Creating Livelihoods for Inclusion." With strategic locations across Africa, the ECA-ICC Entrepreneurship Centers will work with various stakeholders, including businesses, chambers of commerce, academic institutions, intergovernmental and government...
CFAO Retail continues its expansion in Abidjan neighborhoods
And that makes five! A few days ago, CFAO Retail inaugurated its fifth supermarket under the Carrefour Market banner in Abidjan, in the Marcory district. According to its director, Pascal Bordeaux, CFAO Retail now has 11 Carrefour stores in Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Senegal, which also welcomed a new supermarket...
ADICOMDAYS: a fifth edition organized around the theme "Storytelling made in Africa"
The Totem Experience team has officially announced the key dates for the fifth edition of ADICOMDAYS, the continent's leading digital event. This year, ADICOMDAYS will be split into two major events, one in October 2021 in Abidjan and the other in December in Dakar. It should be noted that due...
Africascope 2021: RFI and France 24 watched by more than half of the population in French-speaking Africa
RFI and France 24 confirm their success in French-speaking African countries and their leading positions in terms of brand awareness and audience ratings, according to the results of the "Africascope September 2020-June 2021"* study conducted by Kantar-TNS in eight countries: Côte d'Ivoire (Abidjan), Senegal (Dakar), Mali (Bamako), Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou),...
Death of producer and media figure Amobé Mévègué
Amobé Mévègué passed away on September 8, at the age of 52. An audiovisual producer, he was the founder and CEO of the Ubizznews television channel, available in Africa and Europe via satellite. He was also active in the Afro media world in France, having worked since the 1980s for...
Ivory Coast: official launch of the second season of Creative Lab
The issue of the distribution of funding sources between public and private channels was at the center of discussions at the round table organized on June 24 by the HACA on the economic viability of DTT players, attended by all television channels and operators, representatives of the ministries of economy...
Key findings of the KANTAR-Africascope 2021 study
Africascope 2021 provides a detailed snapshot of media consumption during the first half of 2021 in eight sub-Saharan African countries (Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Gabon), representing a total of 20.2 million individuals. During the first half of 2021, most...
FESPACO 2021: the official selection
The Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) will take place this year from October 16 to 23, with the theme "CINEMAS OF AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA, NEW PERSPECTIVES, NEW CHALLENGES." In the most prestigious category, 17 films representing 15 African countries have been selected. This year, the jury...
The CANAL+ GROUP well represented in the official selection at FESPACO
This week, Fespaco unveiled the official selection for its 27th edition, which will take place from October 16 to 23, 2021, in Ouagadougou. The CANAL+ Group appears 17 times in this official selection with co-productions, pre-purchases, or acquisitions of series or films. Fiction section BAAMUM NAFI by Mamadou Dia (Senegal),...