Bharti Airtel to increase stake in Airtel Africa through share swap
Will see the Indian telecoms giant increase stake to 79%
News - Africa (EN)
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Medusa subsea cable to land in Guinea
European cable to extend along West Africa
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Medallion sues InfraPartners for $15m over unfinished Lagos data center
Digital Realty subsidiary seeks damages after alleged issues at modular build
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Microsoft and G42 data center in Kenya stalled due to lack of power capacity
Data center was first announced in May 2024
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EllaLink lands submarine cable in Mauritania
Only the second cable to land on the West African nation
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QGroup launches data center in The Gambia, claims it is the country's first
While government data center gets inaugurated in Angola
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AWS operated 56.84 million square feet of data center and office space in 2025
A 16 percent increase on the year before
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Moov launches 5G network in Benin
Becomes second carrier in the country to launch 5G
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Liquid Intelligence Technologies secures $660m in debt financing
New debt to pay down old debt
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Oracle launches cloud region in Casablanca, Morocco
N+One Datacenters serves as hosting partner
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Helios Towers to invest $110m on telecoms infrastructure in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The investment will ramp up the mobile network rollout across the country
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Benin wants to establish a secondary national data center
Would be developed to provide redundancy to existing facility
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Tetracore, Huawei plan 20MW natural gas-powered data center in Atakobo, Nigeria
Will be powered by an 100MW on-site power plant
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Airtel Africa, SpaceX trials data and messaging tests of Starlink Mobile in Kenya
Builds on the agreement between the companies last year
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Iran war delays work on Meta's 2Africa subsea cable
Following previous delays in the Red Sea amid Houthi attacks
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Helios Towers revenue up 8% for full year, ramps up tenancy ratio targets
Now wants to hit 2.5 tenants per tower
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Atlancis and EverseTech launch sovereign AI cloud in Kenya
Hosted at iXAfrica data center in Nairobi
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400MW data center could be built in eastern South Africa
But all plans are preliminary
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Equity Bank Uganda migrates data center operations to Raxio Data Center in Namanve, Uganda
Aims to improve resilience of operations and speed up transaction time
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Microsoft to purchase up to 1.8m carbon credits from Rainforest Builder in Sierra Leone
Expected to be delivered over 15 years
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Infrastructure problems and low occupancy hamper growth of Africa's data center industry - report
Almost all of the continent's capacity is located in South Africa
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MTN Group strikes $2.2bn IHS Towers deal
The South African telco will snap up the 75 percent stake in IHS that it doesn't own
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Microsoft on pace for $50bn AI investment in "global south"
Some of which will be spent on AI infrastructure
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Ethio Telecom, Djibouti Telecom, and Sudatel Group sign strategic fiber agreement
The cross-border fiber project aims to create a resilient terrestrial fiber corridor
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MTN Group in talks to snap up remaining IHS Holdings stake
The carrier owns a minority stake at present
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SoleCrypt plans 20MW solar powered data center in Bizerte, Tunisia
Signs MoU with Schneider Electric to develop 'green' data centers across the country
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Government of Mali launches data center in Bamako
Data center designed to meet Tier III standards
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Cybastion to build 20MW data center in Gabon
Working with Gabonese government and Cisco on project