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...
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...
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...
A new call for applications for Fabrique Cinéma
The call for applications for La Fabrique Cinéma 2023 is now online. La Fabrique Cinéma, a program created by the Institut français in partnership with France Médias Monde, the Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique (Sacem), and the International Organization of La Francophonie, aims to promote the emergence...
ZACU TV, a new channel dedicated to fiction, broadcast entirely in Kinyarwanda and produced by CANAL+.
Following NOVEGASY, SUNU YEUF, and MABOKE TV, ZACU TV is now the fourth local-language fiction channel published by the CANAL+ Group in sub-Saharan Africa. As we announced last July, the acquisition of ZACU Entertainment, a major player in content production and distribution in Rwanda, enables the CANAL+ Group to strengthen...
TERRANGA, the new original series from CANAL+ Original
The plot of TERRANGA is revealed... Filmed entirely in Senegal, this new series tackles all the issues of today's reality, such as land and water management in the region, against a backdrop of environmental awareness. This new creation is the result of a writing phase that began in 2017, two...
Africa No Filter: local audiovisual content increasingly in demand on the continent
Local films are more popular with West African audiences than international or American films. This was revealed in a recent report published at the end of September by the NGO Africa No Filter in partnership with Facebook and the African Union. Based on a survey of 4,500 people aged 18...