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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

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

WIOCC's OADC Breaks Ground On Data Center in Kinshasha, DRC

WIOCC's new data center platform, Open Access Data Centres (OADC), has commenced constructing a data center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This Monday, the firm announced on LinkedIn that its latest core plant in the DRC will be located in Kinshasa. The construction of the w...

February 06, 2023

Africa

OADC Launches Data Centers in Johannesburg and Lagos

Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has launched facilities in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria. OADC also noted that it would be launching two more facilities in Cape Town, South Africa while expanding its existing facility in Durban. OADC revealed that it opened a data center in...

December 08, 2022

Africa

Helios Announces Acquisition of Major Stakes in Maroc DC and IXAfrica

Helios Investment Partners has acquired two data center firms. The Africa-focused investment company also acquired majority stakes in Kenya’s IXAfrica and Morocco’s Maroc Datacenter (MDC). The company said in a statement that IXAfrica and MDC are in the correct position to play significant ...

November 22, 2022

Africa

Oman Data Park announces plans for data center on Zanzibar island

Oman Data Park has announced plans to build a new facility on Zanzibar island in Tanzania after the Sultanate of Oman and Zanzibar signed a number of MoUs relating to higher education, research and innovation, and digital infrastructure. The latter related, in part, to the signing of an MoU be...

October 18, 2022

Africa

International Finance Corporation invests $30 million in WIOCC

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced that it has invested $30m in Western Indian Cable Company Holding Ltd. IFC is affiliated with the World Bank. The organization says the fund will help support WIOCC's continued rollout of new subsea cables, terrestrial fiber-optic networks,...

October 04, 2022

Africa

Cape Verde data center to be completed by the end of the year

Cape Verde’s new data center is set to be completed by the end of 2022; it has been announced. According to reports, the first phase of construction of the Cabo Verde Technology Park’s main building is 85 percent complete and ready for operation by 2022’s end. The project, supported by African...

September 14, 2022

Africa

Namibia: Paratus launches data center in Windhoek

Paratus has announced the launch of a new data center in Namibia, located in the capital city, Windhoek, its first facility in the country. The company has called the facility ‘Armada,' and although further details around the facility are yet to be released, it will reportedly be built to Tier...

August 15, 2022

Africa

Work begins on Africell data center

In Freetown, Sierra Leone, construction has commenced on Africell’s data center, and a groundbreaking ceremony was recently held in the country’s capital to mark the occasion. According to the company, this facility will become the “center of the Africell network” in Sierra Leone, where it wil...

June 10, 2022

Africa

Akwa Ibom State to be site for technological development and data centers

Akwa Ibom is becoming an emerging technology and innovation hub in Africa. Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Committee on Foreign Direct Investment Commission, Gabriel Ukpeh, said that the state government is working to ensure that undersea cable lands are in the works in the next 12 to 24 month...

January 12, 2022

Africa

OADC to develop data centers in Nigeria and South Africa

A new data center firm called Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has revealed plans for its first two data centers in Nigeria and South Africa. Earlier in November, Wholesale fiber network company WIOCC revealed that it raised $200 million to launch a new data center based in Africa called OADC. ...

December 09, 2021

Africa

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) moves into Africa

Earth Wind & Power (EW&P) has announced that it is moving into Africa, after having signed Letters of Intent (LOI) for several projects, in the first steps towards collaboration with government ministries. This news follows African Energy Week. According to reports, EW&P is looking...

November 24, 2021

Africa

International Telecoms Week 2021 discusses the growing data center ecosystem in West Africa

International Telecoms Week 2021 was recently held, with 1,500 attendees in National Harbor and over 5,000 attending virtually. A number of experts from the data center industry came together and discussed data center expansion in Africa, and the current disparity between data centers and popu...

September 01, 2021

Africa Data Centres

Ethio telecom launches Huawei-built modular data centre in Ethopia

Ethio telecom has announced the launch of its new Tier III-ready modular data center based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to the operator, the facility, located in the Gola Sefer area, is the largest in Ethiopia, capable of holding up to 800 servers. The data center has a power usage eff...

May 25, 2021

Africa

Sparkle Selects the Djibouti Data Center as its IP Hub in Africa

TI Sparkle, the Telecom service provider based in Italy, has announced that it has moved its African IP hub into the Djibouti Data Center (DDC). Sparkle will use the facility as an IP hub for its expansion to East and South Africa.The Djibouti Data Center is a Tier 3, carrier-neutral data cent...

July 12, 2019

Djibouti Data Center (DDC)

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