The French advertising giant announced via its subsidiary in Gabon that it had won a contract for the exclusive advertising rights at Libreville International Airport for a period of ten years. Under this new contract, JCDecaux Gabon, a subsidiary jointly owned by the Bolloré Group in partnership with the Gabonese...
AFRICANEWS: A future in limbo?
According to Jeune Afrique, Africanews management has announced to its employees that the pan-African channel will cease operations at the end of February 2019. Launched in 2016, the pan-African channel Africanews, headed by François Chignac, provided 24-hour coverage of news and economics in sub-Saharan Africa. As we mentioned in our...
The Série Series festival is coming to Abidjan
After an edition organized in Ouagadougou in 2018, the Série Series Africa festival is moving to the economic capital of Abidjan this April. Série Series Africa is a pan-African meeting place dedicated to series and their creators. The event, open to professionals and the general public, has been designed to...
Orange launches Y'Africa, a new TV magazine
Present in Africa for many years, the Orange Group has chosen to highlight young talent in African culture with Y'Africa, a TV magazine that will soon be broadcast in 17 African countries. Y'Africa, a contraction of the expression "Africa Ya lelo" ("Africa today" in Lingala), is a series of 13...
France Médias Monde's historical performance in digital media in 2019
> 1.5 billion videos viewed and audio plays (+66.7%) > 500 million visits (+21% ) France Médias Monde had a record year in its digital environments in 2019, with an average of 41.6 million monthly visits (nearly 500 million visits over the year), representing an increase of 21% (vs. 2018)....
A+ IVOIRE celebrates its first anniversary!
On January 15, 2019, exactly one year ago, the entertainment channel A+ IVOIRE made its debut on the Ivorian audiovisual scene. An Ivorian version of A+, launched in 2014, A+ IVOIRE has made a name for itself thanks to its diverse offering, providing viewers with local, original, innovative, and educational...
Côte d'Ivoire plans to tax video-on-demand platforms
Africa is the new challenge for Netflix, which has been present on the continent since 2016. It is a major competitor for local players, even though it still has a limited presence in French-speaking Africa. In 2019, the world leader in VOD officially launched its production of original African series....
Cameroon: change of dates for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations
After being stripped of the organization of the last CAN 2019, Cameroon will host the next African Cup of Nations 2021, from January 9 to February 6, 2022. Following a meeting in Yaoundé on January 15, the Confederation of African Football and the Cameroonian authorities announced a change in the...
The third season of The Voice Afrique Francophone will begin on February 15.
The third season of the television show The Voice Afrique Francophone will begin on February 15 on the pan-African channel Voxafrica. For this third season, in addition to online casting, The Voice caravan traveled through a dozen countries in 2019 to give more young talents the opportunity to enter the...
"Collection – Reportages," the new magazine from TV5Monde
The Francophonie channel presents its new monthly news program, "Collection – Reportages." This magazine highlights stories, documents, profiles, and investigations. These reports will shed light on major global issues and challenges, such as the environment, conflicts, the fight against discrimination and poverty, and more. First episode – "In the Name...