Thunes, the global money movement infrastructure provider, has expanded its Direct Global Network across the Middle East with new payout services in six markets: Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman, South Yemen, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. The expansion strengthens Thunes’ cross-border payment infrastructure in the region, enabling members of its Direct Global Network to process payouts…
Telecel Ghana has hosted 100 girls from Ghana’s Upper West and Volta Regions as part of the government’s Girls in ICT initiative, supporting efforts to encourage more young people to develop digital skills and pursue careers in technology. The programme, organised under the Ministry of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation’s Girls in ICT initiative, brought…
Digital Parks Africa (DPA), the data centre business associated with the Master Power Technologies Group, is expanding its footprint into West Africa with the development of Nigeria Data Centre 1 (NDC1), a new carrier-neutral data centre in Lagos, Nigeria. The facility is being developed to serve businesses, financial institutions, banks, cloud providers and connectivity providers…
Gabon is advancing plans to strengthen and develop its national digital backbone through a proposed public-private partnership between the Société de Patrimoine des Infrastructures Numériques (SPIN) and Gabon Fiber. Review and validation workshops for the proposed partnership were held in Libreville on September 9 and 10, bringing together government administrations, relevant authorities and technical experts…
Gabon is advancing plans to strengthen and expand its national digital backbone through a proposed public-private partnership between the Société de Patrimoine des Infrastructures Numériques (SPIN) and Gabon Fiber. Review and validation workshops for the partnership were held in Libreville on September 9 and 10, bringing together government administrations, authorities and technical experts to assess…
Cloudera and Mistral have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprises build, customise and deploy secure, sovereign artificial intelligence directly alongside their private data. The collaboration combines Cloudera’s hybrid data and AI platform with Mistral’s sovereign AI models, giving organisations greater flexibility to run AI across public cloud, private cloud, on-premises, edge, sovereign and…
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has engaged Huawei on potential technology solutions aimed at addressing connectivity challenges and expanding digital access in underserved rural communities across Malawi. The engagement, shared by Joshua William Kamanga, Fixed Network Solutions and Product Manager at Huawei, focused on ICT solutions designed to make connectivity more affordable, scalable and…
Airtel Africa Foundation, in partnership with UNICEF, is expanding access to digital learning across Nigerian schools by identifying communities where connectivity and technology can deliver the greatest educational impact. The foundation said collaboration with local governments has helped it better understand the needs of schoolchildren and identify schools that could benefit most from digital learning…
