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African countries risk slowing the rollout of cloud infrastructure, data centers, and digital platforms if they pursue fragmented national digital sovereignty strategies instead of coordinated regional systems, speakers warned during…
African governments will need to act as anchor customers for digital infrastructure if the continent is to close its data localization gap and accelerate the development of domestic cloud and…
Digital sovereignty is increasingly being reframed across Africa not as a question of control alone, but as a strategy for building infrastructure capacity, enabling trusted data exchange, and positioning the…
Stronger regulatory alignment across African markets will be essential to unlocking investment in data centers, cloud platforms, and cross-border digital services, speakers said during the closing fireside session at GITEX…
Africa will need more than 700 data centers to support the continent’s emerging digital trade architecture under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), according to H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General…
Africa has built more digital infrastructure over the past decade than at any point in its history, yet the continent continues to capture only a small share of global compute…
Africa’s digital infrastructure footprint is expanding rapidly, yet its position in the global compute landscape is weakening. Over the past two years, the continent’s share of global compute capacity has…
Across much of Africa, the constraint on data center and cloud expansion is no longer connectivity. It is demand. The continent’s digital infrastructure base is larger than it has ever…
The conflict between the United States and Iran is widely described as the war no one wants. Neither side benefits from a prolonged confrontation, and the broader global economy certainly…
In the heart of Lagos, a Nigerian fintech company clears millions of transactions each day. The customers are African. The merchants are African. The capital circulates within African banks. But…