BBC Worldwide announces new regional head for Africa

The broadcaster’s commercial arm has created a new role as part of a wider reorganisation along geographical lines, to broaden reach in key markets such as Africa

Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania: switchon, switchoff

A roundup of developments in the occasionally unpredictable world of digital transition in Africa

Malawi is the only country to meet regional digital deadline

Africa’s SADC set the last day of 2013 as the date to start switching on digital TV and retiring analogue infrastructure

CBA board member to give keynote at AfricaCast conference

SABC’s Lulama Mokhobo will discuss the opportunities of ‘triple play’ at a broadcast technology show in South Africa

Kenyan newspaper launches mobile news app

The Standard joins Kenya’s news app scene for android smartphones

BBC confirms Africa venture and China deal

The broadcaster sets itself up to tell the African economic story, and builds on its natural history programming alliance with Chinese state TV

State of the nations: digital transition in Africa

An interactive map and round-up for Commonwealth African countries and transition to digital TV

Kenya to begin analogue TV signal switch-off in December

Nairobi to lead the nation’s digital TV switchover process, which is due for completion in March next year