Vivendi has announced that it will open four CanalOlympia venues in Africa this January and February in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea and Niger. These cinema and entertainment venues are part of a network of several dozen such venues to be deployed progressively in Central and Western Africa. On January 11, 2017, CanalOlympia opens its doors in Conakry (Guinea), quickly followed by the opening of the venues in Douala (Cameroon) on January 18, Niamey (Niger) on February 1 and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on February 25, starting day of Fespaco, the pan-African cinema and television festival of which Canal+ Group is one of the main sponsors. Additional venues are due to be opened in other African countries over the course of 2017.