(AFP dispatch) Eutelsat Group announces the signing of a new multi-year agreement with Q-KON, a major provider of satellite solutions and services, to extend low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services across sub-Saharan Africa. This new agreement will accelerate the rollout of high-speed, low-latency connectivity services for businesses and communities in...
Call for entries for the "Talents du Rire RFI" award
As it does every year, RFI is launching the call for entries for the "RFI Talents du Rire Award," now in its 10th edition. Created in 2015 by comedian and columnist Mamane, in partnership with Gondwana-City Productions, this award highlights new talent in French-language comedy in Africa, the Indian Ocean,...
TechStart: VODACOM and AWS join forces to train young people in digital technology in the DRC
The Vodacom Foundation is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate digital development and improve access to new technologies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This initiative, called "TECHSTART," aims to equip young Congolese people with the skills they need to fill junior positions in the cloud computing...
Interview with Diara Ndiaye, journalist and founder of the "African Youth Awards" project
AWK: Diara Ndiaye, you are behind this initiative. Can you explain its objective to us? DN: Beyond my work as a journalist, I am often approached by young people who need advice, connections, or recommendations. I decided that we needed to create a platform that could really help them. My...
The Douala Series Festival unveils its jury.
A few weeks after the DAKAR Series Festival, it is Douala's turn to host the second edition of the PAN-AFRICAN SERIES FESTIVAL OF DOUALA, Season 2, which will take place from November 20 to 23, 2024. This festival is entirely dedicated to television series and aims to promote the richness...
Media and Society: the 19th edition is now available
The 19th edition of the book Médias et sociétés (Media and Society) written by Francis Balle, professor emeritus of political science at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and former member of the French Broadcasting Authority, has just been published. This book, co-authored this year with Alexandre Joux, professor at the School of Journalism...
NO BLABLA, TV5 Monde's new science fiction series
TV5MONDE launched the series "NO BLABLA," created and directed by François Bergeron and co-written by Basile Yawanké, as a world exclusive on its French-language platform TV5MONDEplus a few weeks ago. This 10-episode science fiction series, each episode lasting 26 minutes, was presented at DAKAR Series a few weeks ago and...
Soon to be an "Office of Legends" Africa
(AFP dispatch) Alex Berger, producer of the hit series "Le Bureau des Légendes" (The Bureau), announced to AFP on Tuesday that a project was "in development" to continue the series following French agents working under false identities, this time on the African continent.The working title is "Le Bureau Afrique." We already...
The future governance of CANAL+ SA is taking shape
The Vivendi Group's Combined Shareholders' Meeting will be held on December 9 and will examine resolutions to approve the separation of Canal+, Havas, and Louis Hachette Group. The press release issued by Vivendi on this occasion specifies, among other things, the governance structure that will be implemented with regard to...
Victoire Andrène OMBI and Daouda KONATÉ Winners of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship
(press release) Eleven years after the assassination of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Kidal, northern Mali, RFI awarded the scholarship bearing their names on Saturday, November 2, in Benin, the scholarship bearing their names to Victoire Andrène OMBI, journalist and presenter at Radio Mucodec (Republic of Congo), and Daouda...