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Africa NewsFebruary 17, 2026 MTN Is Buying Back Africa’s Towers — All of Them — in a $6.2 Billion Deal That Rewrites a Decade of Telecom Strategy After years of spinning out infrastructure to unlock capital, Africa's largest byBetty Wangari
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News NigeriaNovember 12, 2025 Equinix Doubles Down on Nigeria with $100M Expansion Plan, Escalating West Africa’s Data Center Arms Race. The world's largest data center operator is betting big on Lagos as Africa's byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaNovember 5, 2025 UniCloud Africa Launches Sovereign Cloud Platform to Power Africa’s Digital Independence. Pan-African cloud provider targets $5B market with locally-hosted infrastructure byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsOctober 28, 2025 Meta Partners with Safaricom to Bring Second Submarine Cable to Kenya. Meta has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Safaricom, Kenya’s byBetty Wangari
EventsSeptember 3, 2025 Gitex Nigeria: Nigeria to Fund 75 New Digital Innovation Projects, Partner Big Tech on Hyperscale Data Centres. Starting October 1, 2025, the Federal Government of Nigeria will fund 75 new byFatima Oladunni
News Nigeria StartupJuly 24, 2025 Africa’s First Digital SEZ Launches Full-Stack AI Growth Zone to Bridge Continental Infrastructure Gap. Itana aims to keep African AI talent from relying on expensive foreign GPU byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsJuly 15, 2025 Smart Africa’s Bold Gambit: Uniting 11 Nations to Build the Continent’s First Cross-Border Data Highway. Picture this: a Nigerian entrepreneur wanting to expand their fintech startup to byBolu Babalola
