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African Infrastructure Investment Managers acquires majority stake in Ghana-based data centre

AIIM expands its digital infrastructure footprint with investment in carrier neutral, co-location data centre, via newly incorporated Onix Data Centre platform. (Image credit: Adobe Stock)

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM), one of Africa’s largest infrastructure-focused private equity fund managers, and Onix Data Centres (“Onix DC”), have acquired a majority stake in Ngoya Etix DC (Ghana, a carrier-neutral data centre with a current capacity of 170 racks (expandable to 680 racks), via AIIM’s flagship pan-African infrastructure fund, AIIF3

ASN commences Africa-1 subsea cable construction

The Africa-1 system is expected to be ready for operation by end 2023. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

ASN has started the construction of Africa-1, a subsea telecom system to connect Africa, the Middle East and Europe

Aggreko: Testing data centre demand

Aggreko supports data centre providers with anything needed from seasonal changes in temperature to unplanned outages in power. (Image source: Aggreko)

As data centre usage increases thanks to technology advances and changing business requirements, providers need to ensure that their facilities can handle this demand. Samuel Tumma, Head of Engineering at Aggreko Africa, explains how Aggreko can help companies test their data centres and eliminate downtime

Case study: Creating highly visible, color coded network infrastructure labelling

Clear identification enables technicians to quickly identify the infrastructure for fault finding and troubleshooting during network failures. (Image source: Brady)

Well-identified network infrastructure is of great importance in Dark Fibre Africa’s network

Ethiopia’s first private data centre set for construction by Raxio

The Raxio Tier III colocation data centre is set for commission in Q3 2021. (Image Credit: Adobe Stock)

The Raxio Group (Raxio) has secured land to construct Ethiopia’s first private data centre

Carmix machinery to support canal reconstruction in Namibia

A Volvo technician replacing equipment in a piece of construction machinery.

Genuine Volvo Parts are specifically developed, tested and approved to get the very best results from your Volvo machine. (Image source: Volvo CE)

Top reasons to avoid counterfeit parts

A close up of water cascading out of a hydropower plant.

The transaction will give TotalEnergies an interest in hydropower projects in Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi

TotalEnergies expands African hydropower portfolio

Various images from the ceremony in Ghana

The project carries an estimated total cost of US$12bn. (Image source: The Republic of Ghana Presidency)

Construction begins on Ghana’s US$12bn petroleum hub

The attendees of the UIA meeting posing for a picture together.

The initiative was unveiled at a meeting at the UIA head office. (Image source: UIA)

UIA encourages local manufacturing in Kampala

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