The Togolese Football Federation has sold the TV broadcasting rights for its football competitions to the New World TV Group. The two institutions have signed an agreement for the TV broadcast of the D1 championship starting in the 2022-2023 season. Starting in November, for the long-awaited resumption of the D1...
The 2022 Ecrans Noirs Festival Awards
The 26th edition of the Ecrans Noirs Festival took place from November 2 to 4 in Cameroon, in the city of Yaoundé, with the central theme "Cinema, a total art form." Presented as one of the must-see events for cinema in Central Africa, the Écrans Noirs festival aims to promote...
Benin: Government announces creation of committee to support development of film industry
The film industry in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa needs to become more structured and professional in order to develop sustainably. To this end, numerous initiatives are launched each year on the continent to support this development. In addition to private initiatives, the public authorities in the various countries also have a...
Interview with Kady Fadiga, Director of RTI2, and Didier Bléou Tanoh, Director of La 3
RTI has three television channels, RTI1, RTI2, and La 3, and two national radio stations, Radio Côte d’Ivoire and Fréquence 2. Following on from Ms. Saly Silue Konate, director of Radio Côte d’Ivoire, and Maria Coulibaly, director of Fréquence 2, the director of RTI2, Ms. Kady Fadiga, and the director...
RTS on track for the 2022 FIFA World Cup
As we announced in early September , RTS will be the official and exclusive broadcaster in Senegal for the upcoming 2022 World Cup, for which Senegal has qualified. Since then, RTS has been working flat out: it has produced a trailer entirely focused on supporting its national team and has...
CANAL+ Group: financial results and initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa
Vivendi has presented its financial results for the third quarter of 2022, providing details on the activities of the CANAL+ Group in France and internationally. This is also an opportunity to focus on the initiatives taken in recent months by the CANAL+ Group internationally, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Slight increase...
Interview with Joel Amos Badi, Deputy Program Director at NCI
Last July, NCI acquired the rights to the upcoming World Cup, which kicks off on November 20. As the exclusive broadcaster in Ivory Coast, how will you cover this event? The stakes are high because we have to rise to the challenge of this event, which is the biggest competition...
Who are the winners of the 2022 Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship?
Nine years to the day after the assassination of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Kidal, northern Mali, on Wednesday, November 2, RFI awarded the ninth scholarship bearing their names, created in 2014 by France Médias Monde, to Esther Senpa Blaksmedi, a journalist at CRTV Nord in Cameroon, and Henintsoa...
Côte Ouest Audiovisuel and MultiChoice strengthen their collaboration
Well established in the English-speaking world, MultiChoice aims to expand its audience in French-speaking Africa. To this end, the South African group has announced plans to strengthen its collaboration with Côte Ouest Audiovisuel, its partner of more than 10 years. MultiChoice has also chosen to entrust several thousand hours of...
Interview with Mariam Coulibaly, Director of Fréquence 2
Radio Côte d’Ivoire, headed by Saly SILUE KONATE (interview available here), and Fréquence 2, headed by Mariam COULIBALY , are two radio stations belonging to Radio Télévision Ivoirienne. These two stations cover the entire country and broadcast on FM 24 hours a day. They have adopted complementary positioning and occupy...