Jeune Afrique

Jeune Afrique is a weekly magazine French devoted to the African continent .

History

1960: Creation of Jeune Afrique by Béchir Ben Yahmed with Tunis, the October 17th.
1967: Launching of the “Editions of the Jaguar”. The Jeune Afrique Group becomes editor of livres.
1971: Jeune Afrique crosses the bar of the 50.000 specimens sold by semaine.
1983: Creation of the monthly magazine Africa Magazine ( AM ): 50.000 specimens sold as of the second numéro.
1995: New formula of Jeune Afrique : in one year, the diffusion progresses of more than 20%.
1998: New formula of Africa Magazine .
1999: Number 2000: Jeune Afrique adopts a new format and a new presentation, and launches “the direction of the economy”.
2000: Monthly magazine Ecofinance , subtitle " starts again; the magazine of the economies émergentes". Interruption in 2004.

Structure

CA 2002 (unconsolidated): 33,6 million euros. (consolidated: 23,4 M€) (Editor Source)
chairman and founder: Béchir Ben Yahmed near to the royal palace in Morocco, which holds 79% of the holding Fincom (ex-Sifija), head office of the Group.
Capital divided between “more than 600 trained shareholders of employees, of friends, readers and business partners”.
Financing: the review, known for its critical tone, obtains each years of the thousands of Euros of subsidies of certain governments of Africa, in particular the Morocco and the Senegal.

Great names associated with Jeune Afrique

Siradiou Diallo
Sennen Andriamirado
Francis Kpatindé
Marianne Miller
François Katendi
Tunde Fatunde
Rédha Kéfi
François Sudan
Elimane Fall
Hamid Barrada
Fouad Laroui
Celestin Monga

Contacts

57 bis, rue d'Auteuil
75016 PARIS - FRANCE
Tel. (33) 1 44 30 19 60 - Fax. (33) 1 44 30 19 86

External bonds

Site of the group Jeune Afrique
'' Log books '', the blog of the drafting of Jeune Afrique
'' Southern Courriers '', the blog of François Sudan

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