Africanews channel to launch in January


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Rebecca Hawkes

| 09 November 2015





Euronews' long awaited sister channel Africanews will go on air across Africa on 4 January, the company has announced.


The pan-African news channel, based in Congo-Brazzaville, will be available in English, French and partially Swahili, via the SES 4 and SES 5 Ku band satellites. A digital version, Africanews.com, will also be available globally across mobile, tablet and desktop platforms in January.

"Africanews is not Euronews Africa. Editorially independent from Euronews and from any political or ideological agenda, Africanews is designed as the first pan-African multilingual news service," said Michael Peters, CEO of Euronews and Africanews at Discop Africa.

The channel will employ a team of 85 professionals across 15 nationalities, added Peters. Bureaus are expected to roll out next year in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Abidjan and N'Djamena, Chad.

The channel was originally planned for launch in summer 2015 in a partnership between Euronews and the national television channel of the Republic of the Congo, Télé Congo.