Africanews


Africanews is a multilingual news media service, headquartered in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. The news channel is a subsidiary of Lyon, France-based Euronews and began broadcasting online, and via TV and satellite on 20 April 2016. The newsroom has 30 journalists and a technical staff of around 55.

Broadcast

Africanews runs news and weather summaries every half-hour.

Languages

Currently, the programs are broadcast in both English and French - the on-screen captions are bilingual. The channel plans to expand and accommodate most of the continents' population and plans to roll out Swahili, Arabic and Portuguese content soon.

Distribution

The channel currently is broadcast in 33 sub-Saharan countries and is accessible to 7.3 million homes via satellite and digital terrestrial television networks.

Programmes