Africa
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Pan-African operator AXIAN Telecom has secured a $100 million financing package from the European Investment Bank (EIB Global) to expand mobile broadband infrastructure across Tanzania and Madagascar. -
Raxio Group has secured $100 million in financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to fuel its Sub-Saharan African regional data centre platform.
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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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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Actis has agreed to acquire a 100% stake in Swiftnet, a leading telecom tower portfolio in South Africa, from Telkom for around US$355 million.
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Capacity's Saf Malik is joined by a panel of guests to discuss the disruption to African internet caused by the Red Sea and West Coast cable cuts.
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Somalia’s Hormuud Telecom has unveiled new 5G infrastructure which is now commercially available across the country.
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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Ghana’s minister for communications and digitisation, has announced plans to licence satellite internet provider Starlink, less than one week after disruption to four subsea cables caused a major internet blackout in the country and across West and Central Africa.
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CMC Networks has deployed satellite connectivity across Africa and the Middle East to keep African businesses connected during subsea cable outages.
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Bayobab Group, as part of the 2Africa consortium, confirms the landing of the 45,000km 2Africa subsea cable in Ghana and Nigeria.
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IHS Towers and Airtel Africa will expand their partnership through their Nigerian subsidiaries.
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Global Independent Connect Limited (GICL), a subsidiary of IHS Holding, has completed the rollout of more than 10,000km of fibre optic cables across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
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Parallel Wireless has partnered with Hotspot Networks, a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, to extend coverage to previously unconnected rural sites throughout Nigeria.
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Olusegun Ogunsanya (pictured) will retire as CEO of Airtel Africa this year, with Sunil Taldar stepping up to take the top job.
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center3, a wholly owned subsidiary of the stc Group, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CMC Networks, a global service provider offering market leading networking solutions across Africa and the Middle East.
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MTN Group and NEC XON have successfully deployed Africa's first 400G optical transponder solution - Phoenix.
