Sub-Saharan Africa

Football
Sub-Saharan Africa

The Ghana Football Association has sealed a 10-season deal with StarTimes under which it will earn almost $1.8m (€1.7m) per season for all its domestic football media rights.
Basketball
Sub-Saharan Africa

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Afrique has agreed a sublicensing deal with telco Econet for rights to North American basketball league the NBA.
Multi-sport
Kenya

Kenyan free-to-air television platform Bamba TV has launched a new 24-hour sports channel in the country.
Football
Ghana

Pan-African pay-television operator StarTimes has acquired rights to the top-tier Ghana Premier League as part of a wide-ranging agreement with the Ghana Football Association.
Multi-sport
Cameroon

Cameroonian investment company Medicam has said it has been given the go-ahead from the government to launch what it claims will be the country’s first dedicated sports television channel.
Football
Sub-Saharan Africa

Telco Econet, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has agreed a deal with the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa).
Football
Ghana

The Ghana Premier League remains without a broadcast partner with just over four weeks until the start of the 2016-17 season, despite bids from two of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest broadcasters.

Football
Swaziland

Swazi TV, a public-service broadcaster in Swaziland, has secured a rights deal for the country’s Premier League football competition.
Sub-Saharan Africa

ESPN’s multi-faceted agreement with telco Econet’s Kwesé TV pay-television platform brings the sports broadcaster back to sub-Saharan Africa after an absence of more than three years.

Football
Kenya

The MP & Silva agency has gone back into business with the Football Kenya Federation, a year after a deal between the two fell apart amid allegations of forgery, fraud and embezzlement against then-FKF president Sam Nyamweya.

Football
Sub-Saharan Africa

Lagardère Sports is distributing free-to-air rights to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations itself in a marked change from its previous strategy of sublicensing rights in sub-Saharan Africa to another agency.

Football
Africa

Kenya's competition authority (CAK) has launched an investigation into MultiChoice East Africa, the pay-television business of South African media company Naspers, over its coverage of football.

US College Sport
Sub-Saharan Africa

Telecommunications company Econet Media, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has agreed a long-term partnership with international sports broadcaster ESPN for its Kwesé sports service.

Football
Russia

World football’s governing body Fifa has opened invitation to tender proceedings in Russia and sub-Saharan Africa for the 2017 Confederations Cup and 2018 World Cup.

Football
Sub-Saharan Africa

The CAA Eleven agency has launched tenders in sub-Saharan Africa for rights to Uefa national team properties.

Football
Sub-Saharan Africa

Canal Plus Afrique made its first major investment in a domestic African football league earlier this month, acquiring rights to the Côte d’Ivoire Ligue 1.

Motorsport
Sub-Saharan Africa

African telco Econet Wireless has completed a deal for World Rally Championship media rights in sub-Saharan Africa, further expanding its motorsport portfolio.

Olympic Games
Sub-Saharan Africa

The Infront Sports & Media agency has praised its rights distribution for the Rio 2016 summer Olympic Games in the sub-Saharan Africa region as a success, after coverage was aired in a total of 46 territories.