Africa
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Rack Centre’s new 12MW LGS2 data centre in Lagos, Nigeria, has come online, with the firm touting it as hyperscale and AI-ready. -
AFR-IX Telecom has secured a €14.3 million grant from the European Commission to extend the Medusa Subsea Cable System into West Africa.
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Orange Africa and Middle East (OMEA) and Eutelsat have partnered to expand satellite broadband access across Africa and the Middle East.
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e& has become the first operator in the Middle East and Africa to deploy Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) on its optical network.
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PTCL invested $59.5 million in Africa-1 submarine cable to strengthen Pakistan’s digital future
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CFK Africa, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering youth in Kenya’s informal settlements, is witnessing severe disruption following the abrupt withdrawal of support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Forthcoming events
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Secure access service edge (SASE) provider Cloudbrink has unveiled a new software-only mobile hotspot optimisation which it claims doubles the performance of SaaS and enterprise applications on tethered devices.
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In an interview with Capacity at ITW Africa in Nairobi, DS Consortium's Efua A. Dougan discusses the future of AI adoption in Africa and the elements needed to build a sustainable digital future for the continent.
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Raxio Group has inaugurated its data centre in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Raxio Côte d’Ivoire (CIV1).
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Nokia is working with iSAT Africa to improve rural connectivity in Liberia.
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Dr Ayotunde Coker, CEO of Open Access Data Centres, speaks on edge deployment in Africa.
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DjIX rebranded as AMS-IX Djibouti, aims to boost regional connectivity
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ITW Africa: Broadband Telecom (BTI), a Bankai Group company, has revealed an exclusive partnership with Togo Cellular and Telma Madagascar, both subsidiaries of AXIAN Telecom.
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At the opening of ITW 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya, Dr. Margaret Nyambura Ndung’u, PhD, cabinet secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy, outlined the country’s bold digital transformation strategy.
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Orange Liberia has collaborated with ZTE to complete the build of new communication sites called RuralPilot EcoSites, boosting network coverage in rural areas of Liberia.
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Raxio Group has inaugurated its new data centre in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking the country’s largest data centre, with Tier III accreditation by Uptime Institute.
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Today, Africa represents just 2.5% of the global artificial intelligence (AI) market, but emerging applications could boost the continent’s economic growth by US$2.9 trillion by 2030 according to AI4D Africa.
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Netherlands-based Africa-focused data centre operator PAIX Data Centres has expanded the capacity of its site in Accra, Ghana to 1.2MW.
