Zadara, the edge cloud services provider, announced that Africa Data Centres, Africa’s largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data center facilities, and service provider Global Sense have added Zadara’s edge cloud services to their marketplace.

Zadara’s resilient, enterprise-grade products and services, including its Federated Edge program, are now available in Midrand, South Africa, and will soon be expanded into all Africa Data Centres locations to serve enterprise customers...

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the GSMA has called on Central Africa’s 11 governments to adopt policies to accelerate e-commerce, including better access to digital services and public-private collaboration.

Mobile internet use in Central Africa more than doubled in the past decade to 42% at the end of 2019. Women and entrepreneurs increasingly use e-commerce platforms to grow their businesses, according to the joint GSMA-ECA report titled “Enabling e-commerce in Central Africa: the role of mobile...

Medical Credit Fund is established as part of PharmAccess Group, a non-profit organization working to make inclusive health markets work in Africa. MCF2 will deploy innovative digital finance solutions to increase investments in African health infrastructure and improve access to quality primary healthcare services.  

The fund will start in its current countries of operation, which include; Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, then gradually extend to other countries. The first beneficiary of...

Saloodo! announced the launch of BeduConnect, a road freight service between Middle East and Africa. Saloodo! is the first digital marketplace to offer road freight connection between the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, which is faster than ocean freight and cheaper than air freight.

The digital road freight platform Saloodo!, is expanding its services in Middle East and Africa by offering a new road freight connection between the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates...

NuRAN Wireless Inc., a leading supplier of mobile and broadband wireless infrastructure solutions, announces it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Telinno-Consulting Limited (“Telinno”) for the deployment of rural sites under the network-as-a-service model (“NAAS”) in Mali, West Africa and with Sierra Leone Telecommunication Company Limited (“Sierra Tel”) in Sierra Leone, West Africa for the deployment of sites through the build, own, operate, and transfer (“BOOT”) revenue share model.

“We are thrilled to be working with Telinno-Consulting and jointly developing connectivity solutions throughout Mali as well as with Sierra Tel for the deployment of rural sites...

Taager, an Egyptian social e-commerce startup, has raised a US$6.4 million seed funding round to help it scale its platform and expand across the Middle East.

This round was led by Pan-African focused VC 4DX Ventures with participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer Capital and some private investors, including Magnus Olsson, co-founder of Careem. This is also Breyer Capital’s first investment in the MENA region. The startup which is on a mission to disrupt the online SME e-commerce sector was...

Verimatrix, the leader in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, announced that Renmore Partners, which was granted a license to offer an alternative, scalable set top box technology solution for the Nigerian digital switchover project, selected Verimatrix’s conditional access technology to offer Nigerians cost-effective at-home entertainment.

“Verimatrix’s unmatched expertise in scalability and security serves as a powerful enabler for regions looking to make their long-awaited digital switchovers truly possible for the...

Virtually every week brings news of yet another high-profile cybersecurity attack on citizens, companies or governments. Over the last year, large parts of our world moved online.

This unprecedented, large-scale digital migration has also made us ever more exposed to cybersecurity risks. Our security stance has fundamentally changed as the pandemic accelerated the transition of applications. Disruption brought about by the crisis is an opportunity to embed security, not...

Utilities companies should be used to the occasional existential threat. It happened when monolithic phone companies had to adapt globally to the arrival of the internet, smartphones and competition from digital-first competitors.

Today, electric utilities worldwide are facing an Amazon moment with the arrival of a vast array of digital newcomers and increased complexity, from blockchain-enabled electricity trading platforms to smart neighborhoods. Across the board, utilities are facing de-commoditization and shifts in the way...

In today’s modern and distributed enterprise, it’s more difficult than ever to proactively combat internal and external threats due to a lack of server visibility in the context of user behaviour, application updates and system configuration changes.

This lack of visibility into data access, usage, modification, movement, upgrades and IP connections creates gaps in ‘intent’ awareness and fails to identify abnormalities that signal increasing risk such as application deployments...

In our last Africa Cloud Review, we highlighted how Africa needs more cloud skillsdue to the rapidly increasing number of organizations subscribing to integrated cloud services in recent years.

This has especially been accelerated by the pandemic. In fact, analysts predict more and more businesses will be moving to cloud as businesses and their employees worldwide continue to face tremendous challenges in maintaining business continuity. For small businesses, cloud usage has now...