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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Onix’s carrier-neutral, colocation Tier IV data centre in Accra, Ghana, is joining the Angola Cables Global Data Centre Interconnect network.
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Raxio Data Centres confirms the launch of its newest facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The announcement of JINX comes as numerous service providers begin striking agreements with Equinix ahead of a new US$160 million Johannesburg data centre opening.
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WIOCC has launched its latest venture which it describes as the first “truly holistic managed network and infrastructure services company” to serve Africa.
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Sparkle confirms the expansion of its network footprint to South Africa with the opening of two new points of presence (PoPs) in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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MainOne, an Equinix company, confirms the launch of its open access, carrier-neutral, Tier III data centre, AB1.2, in VITIB, Grand Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire.
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Habsatou talks to Nadine Hawkins, editor at Capacity Media about her career journey and the challenges women in Cameroon face in the tech industry
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CMC Networks has partnered with Webber Wentzel, one of the Big Five law firms in South Africa to upgrade its network infrastructure across South Africa.
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What were the most important issues the industry discussed at the first ITW Africa event on the continent?
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Ike Nnamani, CEO, Medallion Data Centres, speaks to Capacity ahead of ITW Africa
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Ahead of the inaugural ITW Africa event, senior reporter Saf Malik is joined by Ayotunde Coker, CEO, Open Access Data Centres.
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Africa Mobile Networks unique business has seen strong growth and helped connect Africa’s unconnected
