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Cape Town’s internet exchange now reaches 6 data centres. It is the sort of expansion that only pays off slowly, because 87 of the exchange’s 122 connected networks currently sit in a single building.
South African exchange operator INX-ZA announced on 3 August 2026 that CINX, the Cape Town Internet Exchange, had gone live inside two Open Access Data Centres sites i...
By Equinix’s own count, Nigeria has landed eight subsea cables. Only one of them comes ashore outside Lagos.
That one is 2Africa, which reached the Qua Iboe beach in Akwa Ibom State in February 2024. On 10 August, MainOne said it had extended metro fibre into the newly upgraded Victor Attah International Airport in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, the latest increment of a build-out...
Cloud infrastructure provider AFRICLOUD has launched its third region in Lagos, providing Nigerian businesses with in-country cloud servers for the first time and bringing West Africa its closest AFRICLOUD location yet.
The Lagos region is a full compute location alon...
Truecaller wants advertisers to stop guessing what people want and simply ask them.
The caller-identification company launched Truecaller Pulse on 6 August 2026, announcing it from Lagos, Nigeria. The product runs interactive ads that ask users direct questions about what they intend to buy, then turns those answers into audience segments advertiser...
Artificial intelligence will not level African education on its own. It will magnify whatever system it lands in, and the constraint is not what schools teach but whether they can deliver it at all.
That was the argument put by Kume Luvhani, co-founder and executive director of Vaxowave, at a roundtable held at the University of the Witwatersrand in...