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At the start of each year, we share our outlook on what lies ahead for Africa’s digital infrastructure ecosystem. This forecast blends advocacy and evidence - what we believe must happen to…
Nigeria’s digital economy briefly vanished. Businesses could not transact. Workers could not connect. Households lost access to the online services that increasingly substitute for failing physical infrastructure. Across Lagos and…
Nigeria may have more subsea capacity than almost any African nation, but its digital progress is being slowed not by bandwidth shortages but by fragmentation, duplication, and the absence of a…
Airtel Africa, through its wholesale fiber unit Telesonic, has signed a major partnership with Nokia to deploy a high-capacity terrestrial fiber network spanning East and Central Africa. Announced at AfricaCom…
Ghana approves “Dig Once” Policy for fiber rollout. Ghana’s government has approved a sweeping new “Dig Once” policy that will require fiber-optic ducts to be built into all new road…
WIOCC, the pan-African digital infrastructure provider, and the Abia State Government have broken ground on a new fiber duct infrastructure project aimed at improving broadband access and last-mile connectivity across…
Safaricom has cut prices for new business fiber connections by 25% for the next two months, in a bid to defend market share and attract small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).…
Bayobab Uganda, the digital infrastructure subsidiary of MTN Group, has launched a new 260-kilometre fiber optic route from Kampala to Malaba, positioning Uganda as a key node in East Africa’s…
Nigeria’s quest for digital transformation received a significant boost as the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) signed a $2.1 million grant with the Nigerian government to assess the deployment…
Ethio Telecom, Djibouti Telecom, and Sudatel Telecom Group have partnered to launch the Horizon Fiber Initiative, a project designed to establish a high-capacity terrestrial fiber optic network that will connect…