Beyond investments and infrastructure in African markets, such as the monumental "One Belt One Road" project, China is organizing more and more events to strengthen relations with Africa. The eighth meeting of the China-Africa Think Tank Forum took place in Beijing on August 27 and 28. Ambassadors from African countries...
Press release: TV5Monde broadcasts the series "Population of Africa"
New on TV5MONDE this fall 2019. TV5MONDE, the French-language channel, will broadcast exclusively from Saturday, September 7, and throughout the year, a new program dedicated to the men and women who are changing Africa: "Population d'Afrique" (Africa's Population). West and Central Africa are experiencing significant population growth (+2.7% per year),...
DRC: Launch of the 2019 Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship
RFI is organizing the sixth "Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship" in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, following the first five editions in Mali in 2014, Madagascar in 2015, Benin in 2016, Senegal in 2017, and Côte d'Ivoire last year. Created in tribute to its two reporters murdered on November...
FIFA: Fatma Samoura calls for centralization of World Cup qualifying rights
FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura recently sent a letter to the presidents of the 54 African federations regarding the centralization of broadcasting rights for the qualifiers for the next two FIFA World Cups. In June 2019, Fatma Samoura was appointed, in addition to her existing duties, as FIFA's general delegate...
StarTimes acquires TV rights for Euro 2020
Chinese pay-TV operator STARTIMES has announced the acquisition of UEFA national team broadcasting rights for the period 2019-2022 across sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa). The rights acquired include the broadcasting of Euro 2020 matches, which will be played from June 12 to July 12, 2020. The rights also cover other...
TRACE and CANAL+ launch Afrikora
At a conference on "Media Business and Music in Africa " held at the French Institute in Togo in March 2019, Olivier Laouchez, CEO of the Trace group, announced a new collaboration with the CANAL+ group. The two groups announced the launch of Trace Afrikora, a new channel dedicated to...
Comedian Mamane returns to Niger to help it emerge from "Gondwana"
"Ah, but it's the Gondwanan!" exclaims the Nigerien police officer when he discovers that the driver he wanted to check is none other than comedian Mamane. He immediately stands to attention and salutes as if he were standing before a powerful head of state. Then he bursts out laughing. We...
Flash offer for maximum visibility during the Senegal-Algeria match
On the occasion of the African Cup of Nations final between Algeria and Senegal in Cairo on Friday, MCNC, which markets the advertising inventory of the African Union of Radio and Television (AUR) for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, broadcast by 33 terrestrial TV channels in 31 sub-Saharan African...
What does the future hold for AFRICANEWS within SIPROMAD?
According to Jeune Afrique, Africanews, the pan-African news channel launched in 2016, is to be sold to the Malagasy group SIPROMAD for $20 million. Read also: Africanews launches its first pan-African advertising campaign The Sipromad group, chaired by Madagascan businessman Ylias Akbaraly, has a wide range of activities (agribusiness, aviation,...
Côte d'Ivoire represented at the World Conference on Media Freedom
On July 10 and 11, London hosted a global conference on media freedom focusing on the key theme of "Press freedom, development, and democracy in Africa." Government officials, multilateral agencies, civil society organizations, academics, and media professionals gathered to exchange ideas and create synergies in support of freedom of expression,...