Africa50 raises $830m for infrastructure

Africa50, the new and innovative infrastructure investment platform promoted by the African Development Bank, held its Constitutive General Assembly on 29 July 2015 in Casablanca, Morocco. Twenty (20) African countries and the African Development Bank have subscribed...

Stage set for growth in Tanzania

Tanzania has tremendous untapped potential. According to the World Bank, the economy is set to grow by an estimated 7.2% this year and the government’s significant investment in the national fibre optic cable increases business and citizen access to technology...

Airtel, Ericsson extend partnership in Gabon

Airtel Gabon has selected Ericsson as its sole supplier for the deployment of a new LTE network. The agreement also includes transformation of the existing mobile radio access and core network infrastructure. LTE 4G technology offers the capacity and the speed to...

Facebook’s Internet.org turns one

Facebook celebrated the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Internet.org app by hosting a Developer Day at iHub in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, 27 July. Over the last year, Facebook has worked closely with more than a dozen mobile operators across 17...

Orange acquires a further 9% in Méditel

Fipar-Holding (the Moroccan Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion group), FinanceCom and Orange signed the final documentation increasing Orange’s interest in Méditel, the Moroccan telecommunications operator, in application of the agreements they signed in December...

TelecomX selects Arista product suite

Arista has announced that South Africa-based TelecomX has chosen its suite of products for its range of cloud products. TelecomX provides services which they either develop in-house or source from best of breed providers to telecommunications providers and their...