Africanews TV launch in sub-Saharan Africa

Since 4 January 2016, Africanews has been providing coverage, on africanews.com, of Africa and the rest of the world from a purely pan-African perspective.

They are supported by an additional extensive network of 45 correspondents all over Africa, operating in conjunction with Africanews’ French-speaking and English-speaking editorial teams.

Africanews is a 100% Euronews subsidiary financed through advertising and distribution. Africanews adheres to the same editorial charter as its European sister channel, Euronews.

Africanews has created a fully-fledged pan-African network, with editorial decisions taken in Africa for an African audience.

From 20 April, the TV viewers of sub-Saharan Africa join the existing Africanews community on its website, its YouTube channels, and its Facebook and Twitter accounts.

…Africanews, a pan-African media outlet for all viewpoints, all voices, all ideas…

Africanews’ purpose – displaying diversity – aims to give Africa its rightful place in the world of news. Much more than a mere ‘window’ on Africa, Africanews has created a fully-fledged pan-African network, with editorial decisions taken in Africa for an African audience.

Participatory by design, it will give its audience a say in its programmes and its digital platforms. These will also be open to local media-industry initiatives and to talented young entrepreneurs who are building an image emphatically focused on the continent’s development.

Sub-Saharan Africa community

From its TV launch, Africanews is immediately available in 7.3 million homes in 33 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, in partnership with major pay-TV players in Africa, who believe in this new pan-African media outlet.

Several national channels with regional reach have also chosen to team up with Africanews, and will broadcast part of its output (from 30 minutes to several hours a day): Canal 2 Info in Cameroon. MBC on Mauritius. Ouest TV in Senegal. RTA in Madagascar.

The Africanews signal covers sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean islands via two satellites: SES 4 and SES 5. To give the largest possible number of TV viewers access to this new source of African and international news, Africanews is broadcast unencrypted and offered free of charge, for the first six months, to operators and owners of dishes pointed at one of the two satellites.

Africanews will also be distributed by operators in the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda.