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...
The CANAL+ GROUP well represented in the official selection at FESPACO
This week, Fespaco unveiled the official selection for its 27th edition, which will take place from October 16 to 23, 2021, in Ouagadougou. The CANAL+ Group appears 17 times in this official selection with co-productions, pre-purchases, or acquisitions of series or films. Fiction section BAAMUM NAFI by Mamadou Dia (Senegal),...
New concepts and reality TV at the heart of Life TV's fall schedule
For its second year, Life TV unveiled its new program schedule, which starts on September 13, at a press conference on Friday, September 10. The main programs from season 1 will return with a few changes: " Willy à midi" will now be preceded Monday through Friday from 11:45 a.m. by...
The 35°Nord agency launches its "China Desk"
2021 has been a year full of new developments for the 35°Nord agency! Over the past year, the consulting and strategic communications agency dedicated to the African continent has accelerated its growth. Following the appointment of Adrien Loriller and Quentin Ruffat as new partners, the agency has gradually expanded its...
Program on rape: NCI apologizes, removes the offending program, and suspends its host
The broadcast of a segment on the program "La télé d'ici vacances" presented last Monday by Yves de Mbella, which was intended to denounce rape, during which a man presented as a former rapist recounted how he assaulted his victims, has sparked outrage in Côte d'Ivoire. Ms. Nassénéba Touré, Minister...
AMBRE: new co-production between RTI and Known Associates Entertainment
Known Associates Entertainment and Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) have signed an agreement to develop and co-produce AMBRE: a six-episode, 52-minute science fiction series. Known Associates Entertainment, co-founded by Tshepiso Chikapa Phiri and Dan Jawitz, is the production company behind the hit show Ubettina Wethu, broadcast on SABC1 (an adaptation of...
RFI launches call for applications for the 2021 Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship
RFI is organizing the eighth edition of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship. Once again this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2021 edition is not being organized in a single country, but in 25 French-speaking countries across the African continent. The eighth edition of the Ghislaine Dupont...