Africanews

africanews
Launched	20 April 2016; 9 months ago (2016-04-20)
Picture format	576i (16:9 and 4:3) (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV)
Slogan	Africa Rising
Language	English, French
Broadcast area	33 African countries Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Liberia Madagascar Mali Mauritania Mozambique Niger Nigeria Republic of Congo Rwanda Sao Tome Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Tanzania Togo Uganda
Headquarters	Pointe-Noire, Congo
Website	www.africanews.com

Africanews is an all-news channel based out of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo. The news channel is a subsidiary of France-based euronews and began broadcasting online, TV and via Satellite on 20 April 2016.

The newsroom has 30 journalists and around 55 technical staffs.

Africanews runs news and weather summaries every half-hour.

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.

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.