Liquid Telecom has appointed Mohamed Abdel Bassit as its new Regional CEO for Middle East and West Africa (MEWA), effective January 1, 2019. Based in Cairo, Bassit will oversee the group’s expansion further into MEWA […]
Gulf Capital, one of the largest and most active alternative asset management firms in the Middle East, and AfricInvest, a pan-African mid-cap-focused private equity firm, have partnered for the first time to provide a US$ […]
West Africa’s data centre provider, MDXI and global IXP platform provider, Asteroid have partnered to launch a carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for the region. The West African Internet Exchange (WAF-IX), is based on Asteroid’s […]
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire will from November 23 to 25, 2018, host the second edition of the Electronic and Video Game Festival of Abidjan (FEJA). This event is organized by Paradise Game, a key player in the […]
Orange and MainOne Cable Company have signed an agreement allowing for a major investment by Orange in the West Africa submarine cable system, MainOne. Through the deal, Orange will acquire additional capacity, thereby reinforcing its position […]
From an early age, he always had a dream of one day running a business in Africa. And so strong was the feeling that when he turned 18, he’d to share it with his wife […]
African payment service provider DPO has announced the official opening of its office in Ghana as part of the company’s expansion efforts in the West African market. The new office will act as the DPO headquarters […]
By Magnus Nmonwu Cash flow problems – more money going out of the business than is coming in – are among the most significant reasons that Nigerian companies go out of business. Cash flow isn’t simply […]
West Africa’s premier data centre solutions provider, MDXi – part of MainOne – has launched an advertising campaign aimed at reinforcing the company’s position as the data center provider of choice for enterprises in the region. […]
Following the partnership of MainOne’s Data Center company, MDXi, with the Nigerian Internet Exchange, (IXPN) to improve national transit traffic in Nigeria, the company has announced a new interconnect service for carriers, enterprises and ISPs […]
Ms Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne, has been nominated as one of 50 top influencers transforming the data center and cloud landscape in Africa, Middle East and Europe (EMEA) at the DataCloud Europe 2017 conference […]
By Magnus Nmonwu The IDC CIO Summit, currently underway in Lagos, is focusing on how the next wave of social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) technologies will unleash innovation and productivity in the enterprise by […]
Toni Solarin-Sodara has been awarded the Most Valuable Professional (or MVP) award from Microsoft. The award comes after Toni worked consistently for four years with the .NET platform at Andela. The Microsoft’s MVP is a coveted award […]
Orange has launched its brand in Burkina Faso, with the move coming less than one year after the closing of the Group’s acquisition of Airtel in the West African nation. Orange will pursue its development in […]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has organised an online campaign – the Aware Migrants campaign – with the aim to inform migrants from 15 countries – mostly in West Africa plus Tunisia and Egypt […]
Ivory Coast is attracting investor interest from Americans of African descent, including one Tiahmo Rauf, a native of Missouri and a resident of Abidjan. Rauf is on course to developing a new city in the West […]
A joint INTERPOL and Trend Micro research paper on cybercrime activity across West Africa has revealed a significant growth in cyber frauds on individuals and businesses. Combining survey results from INTERPOL member countries across the […]
Chris Cox, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer has wound up his West Africa tour in Senegal which he visited to find out how the country’s creatives, developers and entrepreneurs are using Facebook and Instagram to bring […]
Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox is in Nigeria today, to speak at Social Media Week in Lagos about the future of media, and to meet with Nigerian entrepreneurs and content creators. Nigeria is the […]
MainData Nigeria (MDXi) and the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) have announced a partnership aimed at expanding the peering of Internet Transit traffic within Nigeria. The partnership seeks to take advantage of the numerous […]
LG has announced the appointment of Janghoon Chung, as its new MD in charge of East and Central Africa business. Mr. Chung, who brings with him over 20 years’ experience in leadership and knowledge of […]
The West African Research Association (WARA) and The MasterCard Foundation have announced the recipients of the Ideas Matter Fellowship Program, a new fellowship which supports the research of young academics in the region focusing on […]
Huawei and Orange Group have inaugurated a Global Network Operation Center (GNOC) with sites in Dakar, Senegal and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, as part of a five-year managed services project begun in 2015. The GNOC covers […]
The month of October maybe drawing to a close but this should not mean that the exceptional entertainment you’ve come to expect from Startimes Kenya is coming to an end, if not, you still have […]
Minkels, an affiliate of Legrand, has been selected as data center supplier for West African connectivity and data center solutions company, MainOne. MainOne’s undersea fibre optic cable connects West Africa to Europe and also operates […]
DStv has launched two new music channels – TRACE Naija and TRACE Mziki – for its East and West Africa subscribers, from beginning of September this year. The channels are available on the Premium, Compact + […]
MainOne, the premier connectivity and data center Solutions Company, today announced that its Data Center subsidiary, MDXi is now an SAP-certified provider of Infrastructure Services for SAP solutions. This new certification confirms the ability of […]
Building on the success of its program in West Africa, Stanford Seed, the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, has announced the launch of the Seed Transformation Program in East Africa. In May, the […]
MainOne, premier connectivity and data center solutions company recently reinforced its commitment to enhancing its submarine cable assets at SubOptic 2016, the convergence place for leading optical technology vendors to exchange ideas and review latest […]
Oracle is gearing up to host its Oracle Cloud Day event next week, to showcase the firm’s fully integrated stack of cloud applications, platform services, and engineered systems. Set to be held on April 14, […]
Clavister, a leader in high performance network security, has previously announced that it is expanding its operations into West Africa, and is now opening a North African office to give direct sales and technical support […]
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