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Paratus Group announces plans for new facility in Angola

Paratus Group has announced plans to construct Angola’s first Tier-IV-by-design data centre in Luanda. This is the company’s third in the country, and Angola’s first Tier-IV by design.According to Chief Technical Officer at Paratus, Rolf Mendelsohn, the new facility will be constructed on a 30...

June 28, 2023

Angola

Wingu.Africa opens a data center in Ethiopia

Wingu.Africa, a data center corporation based in Djibouti, launched its data center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. When fully functional, the data center will be located in the Ethio ICT park, constructed on a 161,500-square-foot tract of land, with a capacity of 10MW across 800 racks. Minister of...

June 16, 2023

Africa

Rolling blackouts continue in South Africa, difficult winter ahead

In South Africa, state power utility Eskom has warned that energy issues will endure and even get worse by winter as the power crisis continues. According to Calib Cassim, Eskom’s acting chief executive, while the country is currently facing outages for more than 10 hours a day, going forward,...

May 30, 2023

South Africa

Financial Concerns Caused Surfline Ghana to Close Data Center

Surfline Communications, a Ghanaian 4G LTE company, has been compelled to close its data center and radio access network (RAN) due to financial difficulties. The National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana revealed to the Daily Graphic that the company was experiencing significant financi...

May 17, 2023

Ghana

Sentech Plans Data Center Business in South Africa

State-owned South African broadcast infrastructure corporation intends to enter the colocation data center market. Sentech's chief executive officer, Mlamli Booi, told ITWeb this past week that the company will upgrade its current footprint and expand nationwide. According to ITWeb's intervie...

May 14, 2023

South Africa

Data Center Fire Causes Zenith Bank Disruption in Nigeria

Per a report by TechCabal, the power backup system at Zenith Bank in Nigeria was damaged by fire, which resulted in a blackout at the data center. The outage began at seven in the morning, affecting customers, and majority of the bank's services were down. According to TechCabal, the bank did ...

May 04, 2023

Nigeria

GPX Global Systems INC Expands its Cairo Data Center

GPX Global Systems Inc., the leading provider of carrier-neutral data center offerings in Africa, and Redcon Group have announced a new investment of approximately $90 million to expand the Cairo 2 data center in Cairo, Egypt. The development will add an extra 12 MW of power and 9,000 M2 of sp...

May 03, 2023

Africa

New Hybrid Data Center to Boost Student Learning in Nigeria

The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has commissioned a new hybrid data center at the Delta State Polytechnic, Oghara. The new facility is expected to provide students with access to the latest technology and help improve their learning experience. According to the President...

April 18, 2023

Nigeria

iXAfrica to Expand Services as Lion Investment Bidco Acquires Majority Stake

Lion Investment Bidco, a subsidiary of a private equity firm, has acquired a majority stake in iXAfrica, a data center operator in Kenya. The transaction was completed for an undisclosed amount and marks Bidco's entry into the data center industry. XAfrica was founded in 2018 and operates data...

April 13, 2023

Africa

Liquid Intelligent Technologies Will Provide Zambia With a Brand-new Data Center

To accelerate the country's digital transformation, the Zambian government has partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to establish a new data center. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) stating this was signed by both sides. This is a positive move since the data center will also handl...

April 12, 2023

Africa

Nigerian President Unveils Kano's Tier 4 Data Center

President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the 41-terabyte countrywide tier-4 Data Center in Kano on Monday. During the ceremony, Prof. Ali Isa Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, stated that the data center was the first of its kind in northern Nigeria and the finest in the co...

April 10, 2023

Nigeria

WIOCC's Planned Data - Center Facility to Increase Africa's 1% Contribution

In order to establish Africa's first data center hub, West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) will invest $500 million over the course of the next five years in the construction of data centers there. Africa's data center market size by investment was estimated at $2 billion in 2020 and is pro...

April 06, 2023

Africa

Omantel partners with Djibouti Data Centre to expand Africa footprint

Omantel has signed a partnership deal with Wingu Group's Djibouti Data Centre with the aim of expanding into the African market. Further, through the deal, Djibouti will: Pursue new wholesale partnerships with operators and hyperscalers, Enhance the utilization of connectivity between Oman and...

March 28, 2023

Djibouti Data Center

MoU in Zambia to lead to data center projects in the region

The Zambian Minister of Science and Technology recently announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Liquid Telecommunications, a digital infrastructure provider, to develop a commercialized data center, alongside several fiber projects in Zambia.The MoU is reportedly part...

March 27, 2023

Africa

Egyptian Government Halts Sale of Telecom Egypt Stake

Plans by the Egyptian government to sell a portion of the state-owned Telecom Egypt have been put on hold. According to Reuters, which cites people familiar with the situation, market factors are to blame for the suspension. It happened only a few weeks after rumors claimed that the Egyptian g...

March 22, 2023

Africa

Algeria Telecom launches new data center

State-owned Algeria Telecom has announced the launch of a new data center in Constantine, Algeria. Although specific details regarding the facility are yet to be released, the company said that it is ‘equipped with the latest technology in addition to a cloud platform.’ Further, the facility i...

March 05, 2023

Africa

Construction of a New Teleport by Paratus Begins in Pretoria, South Africa

The South African city of Pretoria now has a new teleport, thanks to pan-African telecom Paratus. At Doornkloof, some 50 miles north of Johannesburg, local newspapers claimed that Paratus has started building its newest "multimillion-rand" satellite teleport facility. The company stated that i...

March 03, 2023

South Africa

Three Egyptian Data Center Campuses Are Being Planned by Gulf Data Hub & Elsewedy

Gulf Data Hub (GDH), a Middle Eastern data center company, intends to open additional campuses in Egypt. The company said this week that it had struck a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with engineering company Elsewedy Data Centers to build the biggest data center complex in Africa in Egy...

February 20, 2023

Africa

Onix Data Facilities Extends Operations to Dakar, Senegal

Onix, a data center company in West Africa, is growing into Senegal and providing colocation space in Dakar. This week, the corporation announced that the new data center is at the city's 2Africa Cable Landing Station (CLS). The Onix facility's specifications weren't disclosed. The corporation...

February 20, 2023

Senegal

WIOCC Completes 2Africa Undersea Cable Landing at OADC Facility in Durban, South Africa

WIOCC has successfully connected the 2Africa cable to the Open Access Data Centres (OADC) Durban facility in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In April 2022, OADC's 4MW, 43,050 sq ft facility in the Amanzimtoti neighborhood of Durban debuted with 21,525 sq ft of white space. The 2Africa cable was a...

February 08, 2023

South Africa

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