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WIOCC Secures Additional $65m in Sustainability-Linked Loans

African digital infrastructure provider WIOCC Group has raised $65 million in debt financing to fund the expansion of digital infrastructure across Africa. The funding is secured through sustainability-linked debt financing, arranged by International Finance Corporation (IFC), Proparco, Emergi...

December 23, 2025

Africa

UAE to Invest $1bn in AI Infrastructure across Africa

The UAE has said that it will invest $1 billion in AI infrastructure across Africa. The announcement was made on Saturday at the G20 leaders’ summit in Johannesburg by UAE Minister of State Saeed Bin Mubarak Al Hajeri, who said that the funds would “provide access to AI computing power, techni...

November 24, 2025

Africa

Indus Towers to Boost Infra Footprint to Africa

Indian tower company Indus Towers has outlined plans to expand its footprint into Africa. The company's board has approved plans to expand its tower portfolio into Africa, kicking off with Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia.In the announcement, Indus has said that it will leverage its financial posit...

September 05, 2025

Africa

Africa50 invests in Egypt’s Raya Data Center

Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investor and asset manager, this week announced a $15m equity investment in RDC to fund the development of a greenfield Tier III-quality data center in Egypt. A Raya Holding stock exchange filing notes through the investment, Africa50 will acquire a 42....

December 14, 2024

Africa

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Alameda Healthcare Group and Dell Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint data center development in Cairo. Dell will be responsible for providing the data center equipment necessary to Alameda, as well as to provide implementation services. Dell will also of...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Alameda Healthcare Group partners with Dell for data center development in Cairo, Egypt

Dell will also offer advisory services to Alameda surrounding Edge computing, network infrastructure, data center core technologies, and multi-cloud solutions.The data center will be located in Cairo, and will host Alameda's digital infrastructure.Dr. Fahad Khater, chairman of Alameda Healthc...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Telecom Namibia inaugurates cable landing station in Swakopmund

Telecom Namibia has inaugurated its cable landing station in Swakopmund, Namibia, activating its capacity on Google’s Equiano subsea cable which connects Namibia to Europe via Portugal and to the rest of Africa, via Cape Town and Johannesburg. The cable will help to build resilience in light ...

August 01, 2024

Africa

Possible subsea cable damage linked to outage spike in West Africa

Outages are being reported along the western coast of Africa after a possible cable damage incident. Reports from MyBroadband have linked this downtime to multiple outages on undersea cables near Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire. Microsoft is reporting network latency issues in its South Africa North ...

March 15, 2024

Africa

Airtel Africa CEO to retire in July 2024

Airtel Africa revealed in an announcement this week that it’s CEO, Olusegun Ogunsanya, is to retire and will officially step down from his role in July 2024. He will then become the Airtel Africa Charitable Foundation’s inaugural Chair. Sunil Taldar has been appointed as managing director and ...

January 03, 2024

Africa

Meta-led 2Africa subsea cable lands on the Canary Island

The Meta-led 2Africa subsea cable landed at Salinetas Beach in Telde, on the island of Gran Canaria. This project was carried out through a 50:50 partnership between Vodafone and the Cabildo de Tenerife, through Canalink. Canalink said, “We are delighted to be part of this project that will in...

December 27, 2023

Africa

Ericson partners with Ooredo to provide 4G network of oil companies

Ericsson recently announced that it is working with Qatari mobile operator Ooredoo to provide its customers in the oil and gas sector with rugged 4G network connectivity. The network will be deployed offshore to connect the oil and gas customer’s facilities with arriving ships. Kevin Murphy, V...

November 29, 2023

Africa

Two data centers secure a $15 million loan in Cape Verde

The island nation of Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) in Africa has been granted a loan to construct two new data centers. This week, the African Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Cabo Verde announced the signing of a loan agreement for $15.3 million to improve the Cabo Verde Technology Park...

August 01, 2023

Africa

Shapoorji Pallonji signs MoU to build data center in Gabon

Shapoorji Pallonji has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gabonese state for a national data center project.Reports note that the project has been underway for a number of months, with the company first visiting Gabon in March 2023. While further details ...

July 07, 2023

Africa

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

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

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

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

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