On the occasion of the 4th edition of Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week and its 10th anniversary, the NGO EducommunicAfrik, in collaboration with the Deutsche Welle Akademie and the ISTC, is launching a call for applications to internet users aged between 15 and 35. The aim of this...
Launch of Africa MiTH, organized by Hapsatou Sy (Press Release)
With its inexhaustible cultural wealth, Africa shines throughout the world thanks to its diversity. Its human and natural resources, combined with a valuable culture of innovation, make it a land of endless opportunities. Shedding new light on Africa and revealing the continent's full potential is the goal of Africa MiTH...
Francis Mvemba signs with LifeTV
Fabrice Sawegnon, CEO of the Voodoo Group and Life TV, announced Francis Mvemba's arrival at Life TV this week in a Facebook post. Very little information has been leaked about the nature of the project, but the news has already set the Ivorian internet ablaze. Francis Mvemba, a Congolese entrepreneur...
Canal+ deploys Enensys' OneBeam solution in Africa
Enensys Technologies, a provider of media distribution solutions, has delivered a complete upgrade of Canal+ International's EasyTV service in Africa. Technically, the operation consists of migrating the existing DVB-T2 network in Africa from standard DVB-T2/T2MI broadcasting on the C-band to OneBeam DVB-SIS broadcasting on the Ku-band. This migration enables Canal+...
New World markets free-to-air rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup for sub-Saharan Africa
The entire population of French-speaking sub-Saharan African countries will be able to watch the World Cup free of charge starting November 20. With five weeks to go before the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, New World TV has announced that it has signed contracts with 42 television channels...
Benin: HAAC wants to develop high-quality journalism
The proliferation of fake news, propaganda, and misinformation has greatly contributed to weakening journalism and access to quality information on the continent, as in the rest of the world. It is necessary, even crucial, to encourage the development of quality journalism, particularly through the development of local skills. With this...
ZACU TV, a new channel dedicated to fiction, broadcast entirely in Kinyarwanda and produced by CANAL+.
Following NOVEGASY, SUNU YEUF, and MABOKE TV, ZACU TV is now the fourth local-language fiction channel published by the CANAL+ Group in sub-Saharan Africa. As we announced last July, the acquisition of ZACU Entertainment, a major player in content production and distribution in Rwanda, enables the CANAL+ Group to strengthen...
The Hirondelle Foundation is seeking candidates—journalists—for its program aimed at strengthening the media in West Africa.
The Hirondelle Foundation is launching a call for applications to select a group of journalists for its professional training program "Violence Prevention and Media: Strengthening West African Media." Its objective is to strengthen the constructive role of the media in West Africa in preventing conflict and violent extremism by promoting...
Interview with Françoise Ellong, director of the series "Le Futur est à Nous" (The Future Belongs to Us)
Originally from Cameroon and Benin, Françoise Ellong grew up in Paris and studied film. At a very young age, she entered the Prix du Jeune Écrivain de Langue Française (Young French Language Writer Award). The competition jury awarded her a prize for her short story "Journal Intime d'un Meurtrier" (Diary...
Interview with Michel Mutombo Cartier, Managing Director of A+ and A+ Ivoire
It's back-to-school time for the A+ and A+ Ivoire channels. What's in store? The 2022 season promises to be rich in content. We have redefined our objectives for the occasion and can already announce several major new features coming to the channels, including sports, laughter with a new weekly show,...