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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…
For more than a century, Kenya has been East Africa’s physical gateway. Cargo entering the Port of Mombasa has supplied markets across Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic…
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…
A missile strike that reportedly hit a banking facility linked to Iran’s Bank Sepah in Tehran last week is the latest sign that modern conflicts are beginning to target an…
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…
The Pan African DataCentres Conference and Exhibition (PADC) will return to the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on 23–24 June 2026, bringing together operators, investors, policymakers, and technology providers at…
Africa is laying the digital equivalent of highways at record speed—and importing almost everything that matters once the traffic arrives. The continent’s connectivity story has turned a corner. Subsea systems…
Africa has made rapid progress in expanding digital connectivity, but growth in local compute capacity continues to lag behind demand, widening a structural gap in the continent’s digital infrastructure. According…