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AFRICA is currently underserved in terms of Data Centre (DC) capacity, accounting for one per cent of the global total.

Telecommunications networks funded and built by China are taking over Africa's cyberspace, a dependence that analysts suggest puts Beijing in a position to exert political influence in some of the continent’s countries. Bulelani Jili, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University’s Department of African and African American Studies, told VOA Mandarin in a phone interview that “Huawei is…

It is no secret that Africa needs more data centres - the continent is still limited by lower internet penetration rates when compared to the world. Abigail Opiah reports

Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s largest data centre provider, is considering expanding to Nigeria and Kenya, CEO Jan Hnizdo reveals. The company could create data centres of between 1MW and 4MW in those countries, Hnizdo says from Johannesburg. Nigeria and Kenya have the liberalised telecoms sectors that data centres need, he adds. Growing numbers of African internet users make it harder to serve the continent’s needs via offshore data centres in Europe or the US. Local capacity means faster connections speeds, and Africa’s data centre market is set to grow at a compound annual rate ...

How Nigeria can leverage $500bn cloud market to push national e-ID card On By Prince Osuagwu Nigeria recently kicked off a quest to replace the plastic identity cards it issued to citizens from 2013 with a digital identity. Although the process of obtaining the identity is froth with several inconsistencies and has elicited criticisms, the digital identity is expected to save the country some foreign exchange, address national security, encourage access to financial services as well as build investors’ confidence in Nigeria’s recessive economy. The identity will be issued to all Nigerian...