In a letter to shareholders on Thursday, September 23, Vivendi announced that it had increased the stake of its subsidiary CANAL+ Group in the capital of the operator MultiChoice Group. With 15.37% of the shares, CANAL+ and its parent company Vivendi have become the largest shareholders in the South African...
Gulli AFRICA airs a commercial aimed at combating piracy
Since September 25, Gulli AFRICA has been broadcasting a commercial aimed at combating piracy. This 40-second spot, presented by Moussier Tombola and also broadcast on social media, explains how watching programs on free websites can be harmful to children. @protegeTaTélé is an initiative launched a year ago by the CANAL+...
Ivory Coast: Pathé Gaumont multiplex cinema set to open by 2023
As we announced at the beginning of the year, the Pathé Gaumont group is accelerating its development in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. The goal is to open a multiplex in Dakar and a second one in Abidjan. Things are taking shape in Côte d'Ivoire. On social media, SETAO, a subsidiary of...
Return of La Télé d’ici, the show hosted by Cheick Yvhane, on Monday, September 20
Cheick Yvhane, who presents Télé d'ici, the channel's flagship program since its launch in December 2019, returns to the airwaves after the summer break. Starting September 20, Cheick Yvhane will be joined by new members of his team. Accompanied by Lincey Sibai, who was already present during season 2, Gliss,...
MANJAK, on CANAL+ Afrique starting October 4
Manjak, the series commissioned by CANAL+ International from Anna GOMIS, will be broadcast on CANAL+ Afrique starting October 4. Creator of the series Renaissance broadcast on TV5Monde and artistic and literary coordinator of the series Sakho et Mangane broadcast on Canal+ Afrique, Anna Gomis is the showrunner and co-writer of this...
CANAL+ AFRICA will broadcast the UEFA Champions League until 2024
CANAL+ has renewed its long-standing partnership with the UEFA Champions League for three more seasons. This means that UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup matches will continue to be broadcast in French on CANAL+ for subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa, exclusively until 2024. To mark the occasion, CANAL+SPORT channels will...
CFAO Retail continues its expansion in Abidjan neighborhoods
And that makes five! A few days ago, CFAO Retail inaugurated its fifth supermarket under the Carrefour Market banner in Abidjan, in the Marcory district. According to its director, Pascal Bordeaux, CFAO Retail now has 11 Carrefour stores in Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Senegal, which also welcomed a new supermarket...
Death of producer and media figure Amobé Mévègué
Amobé Mévègué passed away on September 8, at the age of 52. An audiovisual producer, he was the founder and CEO of the Ubizznews television channel, available in Africa and Europe via satellite. He was also active in the Afro media world in France, having worked since the 1980s for...
Ivory Coast: official launch of the second season of Creative Lab
The issue of the distribution of funding sources between public and private channels was at the center of discussions at the round table organized on June 24 by the HACA on the economic viability of DTT players, attended by all television channels and operators, representatives of the ministries of economy...
FESPACO 2021: the official selection
The Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) will take place this year from October 16 to 23, with the theme "CINEMAS OF AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA, NEW PERSPECTIVES, NEW CHALLENGES." In the most prestigious category, 17 films representing 15 African countries have been selected. This year, the jury...