Created sixty years ago,
Jeune Afrique
magazine
must now reinvent itself.
Hard hit by the Presstalis crisis and confinement, the weekly suspended its publication for two months before reappearing, on a monthly basis since May.
"We had planned to change the magazine's periodicity in 2021 but the crisis precipitated our decision to switch to 'digital first'",
explains Amir Ben Yahmed, CEO of the group.
The magazine founded by his father Bechir Ben Yahmed is an international media positioned on a niche: political and economic news on the African continent.
For the past ten years or so, the entire group (the
Jeune Afrique
magazines
in French,
The Africa Report
in English and events for which The Africa CEO Forum) was balanced.
“But the year 2020 will leave a hole in the accounts of 7 to 8 million euros,” said
Amir Ben Yahmed.
With the key to the elimination of twenty positions out of a workforce of 140 people.
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