December 23, 2025 Africa
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, Emerging...
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November 24, 2025 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, technical...
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September 05, 2025 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 position...
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December 14, 2024 Africa
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 42.9...
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August 01, 2024 Africa
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 offer...
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August 01, 2024 Africa
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...
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August 01, 2024 Africa
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 of...
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March 15, 2024 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 and...
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January 03, 2024 Africa
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 CEO...
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December 27, 2023 Africa
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...
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November 29, 2023 Africa
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, VP...
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August 01, 2023 Africa
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....
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July 07, 2023 Africa
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...
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June 16, 2023 Africa
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...
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May 03, 2023 Africa
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...
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April 13, 2023 Africa
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...
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April 12, 2023 Africa
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 handle...
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April 06, 2023 Africa
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...
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March 27, 2023 Africa
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 of...
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March 22, 2023 Africa
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...
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