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Netflix has ramped up its investment in stories from African creators with a new slate of African originals and a multi-project partnership with South African filmmaker Mandlakayise Walter Dube.

Netflix has partnered with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, which will provide a one-time grant of $250,000 to be distributed by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity, in order to promote telling stories about and by women in the Arab world.

By 2026, there will be 15.06 million paying SVOD subscribers in Africa, three times the 5.11 million expected at the end of this year, Digital TV Research projects.

Realness Institute, an organization founded to promote African content, is partnering with Netflix to create an Episodic Content Development Lab for writers in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.

Pearl Thusi (Quantico) is set to star in Queen Sono, which marks Netflix’s first African original series.

Netflix has entered into a new partnership with OSN that will deliver programming across the Middle East and North Africa.

Netflix has made a push in Israel to become "a truly Israeli service," using the local language and currency and adding Israeli TV shows to Netflix's original programming.