Press release English

EDITORIAL

'International Edition'

The weekly review of international news

#InternationalEdition

From Saturday to Monday at 6 am WAT

International Edition by Euronews is a weekly review of the latest international news in Europe and beyond, from a pan-African point of view. The programme is a preview of Euronews on Africanews which highlights the latest political, economic and social news in the West. International Edition shows on Africanews every week-end from Saturday to Monday.

Africanews is the first pan-African, multilingual media that presents the new face of information from a continent in motion.

Every week-end, International Edition provides news and information about the most talked stories around the world. The programme is a weekly review of the latest European headlines and top stories from a pan-African perspective, a selection done by our editorial team in Pointe-Noire.

With International Edition, we stay close to the information, the world and its diversity, and we go beyond Africa and build a bridge with Euronews, our sister channel and European news aired every day.

International Edition

Broadcast : Saturday at 6am WAT

Duration : 10', then rebroadcast every hour from Saturday to Monday morning

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#InternationalEdition @africanews

About Elayne Shani Wangalwa

@elayneshani

Elayne Wangalwa, born in Kenya, is the Englishspeaking journalist who presents International Edition on a one-week rotation schedule.

Elayne previously worked for the pan-African

economic and financial television channel CNBC

AFRICA and as a columnist for Forbes Africa

magazine. She has a keen interest in current

affairs and business news.She interviewed

leading business executives such as Akinwumi

Adesina, former Nigerian Minister of Agriculture

and current President of the African

Development

Bank.

Elaynes has a background in Electronic Media and Public Relations from DayStar University in Kenya.

She joined Africanews in October 2015 and is among the pioneer team.

About Ruth Lago

@ruth_lago Ruth Lago, born in Ivory Coast, is the French-speaking journalist who presents International Edition every other week.

Ruth started her career in two private and non-commercial radio stations as a sports journalist. She worked next as correspondent for several international media outlets including Canal +, for the program Talents d' Afrique.

She also worked during two years at the Francophone Desk for AFRKATV, a panAfrican television, before joining Africanews team in October 2015, among the pioneer team.

Ruth has a post-graduate diploma in communication studies after a Higher Technician's Certificate in Business Communication obtained in Abidjan.

Follow us on Twitter @africanews and @euronews_group For further information, please contact:

Press Office Solange Bodiong Chauwin Communication Officer t + 242 06 460 86 98 solange.bodiong-chauwin@

Editorial Fran?ois Chignac Africanews Director t +242 06 996 00 88 francois.chignac@

Euronews Group press office - Lydie Bonvallet - t +33 (0)4 28 67 05 35 lydie.bonvallet@

About Africanews

Africanews, launched in 2016 (digital in January, TV in April), stands out as the first pan-African multilingual media source produced simultaneously in French and English, and offering coverage of African and global news from a sub-Saharan perspective.

Today, Africanews TV is available in 38 countries across sub-Saharan Africa thanks to major pay-tv players and national channels (partial broadcast). The Africanews signal covers sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean islands via two satellites: SES 4 and SES 5.

Africanews' digital platforms, available around the world, highlights the challenges and opportunities of a connected Africa:

- has a responsive website design to suited to all mobile, tablet and computer screens.

- two YouTube channels (in English and French) and Facebook and Twitter accounts @africanews and @africanewsfr.

- An application for iOS devices avalaible for free on the App Store

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

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