The Basketball Africa League is gaining momentum across the continent. Funded by the NBA, the major basketball competition returns for a fourth season packed with new features. It should be noted that in 2020, the NBA announced the launch of the Basketball Africa League, a few months after the creation...
African countries are considering possible regulation of social media
How can content published across social media networks be regulated? This is a thorny issue that media regulators in Africa have attempted to address. Social media certainly increases access to information, but its use by users also leaves room for many abuses, including misinformation. To combat this scourge and provide...
RTS secures broadcasting rights for African qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup™
RTS has signed an agreement with Marketing & Media Solutions to obtain the broadcasting rights for the African qualifying matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. As we announced a few weeks ago, Marketing & Media Solutions (MMS) and PC Plus Group Holding SA (PC Plus Group) have partnered to...
AFO MEDIA, the new group launched by Alain FOKA
Journalist, producer, and presenter at RFI since 1994, Alain Foka announced his departure from RFI a few weeks ago. The renowned Cameroonian media personality will now focus on developing his newly created AFO Medias group, with the ambition of turning it into a major media group whose intention is to...
NCI signs with New World TV for free-to-air broadcast of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations
After broadcasting the best matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, NCI (Nouvelle Chaîne Ivoirienne) is doing it again by signing a sublicense agreement with New World TV allowing it to broadcast the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations matches on free-to-air television in Côte d'Ivoire. This announcement follows New World...
Benin: SRTB, a new entity encompassing ORTB and CMAJB
The Société de Radio et de Télévision du Bénin S.A. (SRTB) is a new entity created by the authorities, resulting from the merger of the Office de radiodiffusion et télévision du Bénin (ORTB), which manages the country's public media, and the Centre multimédia des Adolescents et des Jeunes du Bénin...
NCI will broadcast the Ivory Coast team's qualifying matches for the 2026 World Cup
NCI has just announced the acquisition from PC Plus Group and Marketing Media Solutions of the broadcasting rights for the Ivory Coast national football team's matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Côte d'Ivoire, which is in Group F alongside Gabon, Kenya, Gambia, Burundi, and Seychelles, will play 10...
IPTV Senegal: +37.7% in the third quarter
According to the Omedia institute, which tracks TV advertising investments (IPTV) in several African countries, the TV advertising market continues to grow strongly in Senegal. Since the beginning of the year, advertisers' advertising investments have increased by +28.3% compared to the first nine months of 2022. The third quarter grew...
Interview with Yoro Mbaye – Senegalese director and producer
Can you tell us about your job? As a film enthusiast, I have been working as a director and producer since 2016. I film contemporary societyin my country, Senegal, through short fiction films anddocumentaries. When I started out, I worked on a number of film projects, includingfive short films that...
RTI is the official broadcaster of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations
On November 3, RTI held its traditional ceremony to mark the start of the new season. On this occasion, the group also announced that it will be the exclusive broadcaster of the 34th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, to be held in Côte d'Ivoire. The sales and marketing...