Lion Investment Bidco Limited has received clearance from the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) for its acquisition of a majority of shares in IXAfrica Data Centre Limited, a co-location service provider. The investment, which is for an undisclosed amount, has been approved by the authority as it will not have any adverse effects on the market for colocation of data cent...

Africa’s hyperscale data centre developer IXAfrica Data Centre Limited has appointed William Barney to its Board of Directors. Barney has had a long and successful career within the digital infrastructure sector globally and is currently Chairman of the Pacific Telecoms Council (PTC),  a global membership organization promoting the advancement of information and communic...

Real estate group Agility Logistics Parks (ALP) has unveiled plans to deploy data centre campuses in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Ghana. The facilities are to be built within ALP warehousing complexes in a sign of the growing real estate repurpose trend which is fostering the development of data centres in several markets. ALP has readied data centre campuses in its e...