Laser Light Companies and WIOCC have signed a five-year US$129 million master services agreement to bulk up Africa’s digital infrastructure backbones. As part of the terms, Laser Light will contract with WIOCC for capacity on terrestrial and subsea cables in and around Africa and support services. In turn, WIOCC will use Laser Light for its global connectivity needs be...

African network operator Paratus Group has unveiled plans to erect a new data centre facility in Angola’s capital, Luanda.  The new site will add to two existing centres that the pan-African telco already owns and operates in the country. This will also be the fifth facility operated by the Paratus Group in southern Africa. Chief Technical Officer at Paratus, Rolf ...

Raxio, Roha and Meridiam have secured a sustainability-linked debt facility of up to US$170 million in multiple tranches for Raxio Data Centres, a pan-African data centre developer and operator. The financing package includes US$110 million from Proparco and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company. The fin...