About US$100mn has been injected into Africa’s fintech and mobile payments sector in 2018, with a significant amount of additional capital to be deployed this year, according to TMT finance, a global telecom, media and tech news and events company

The French Development Agency (AFD) has granted a US$130mn loan to the National Agency for Côte d'Ivoire's Universal Telecommunications and ICT (ANSUT), to build and develop 7000km fibre optic network in the country

Registrars and Resellers (RaRs) that are not ICANN-accredited but wish to provision dotAfrica (.africa) domain names can now do so by becoming a reseller on the AF Proxy Domain Name Registration Platform

MainOne’s Data Centre subsidiary, MDXI has received its Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute

FibreCo Telecommunications has announced to complete its rollout of fibre in the Kroonstad in the Free State, making reliable high-speed broadband connectivity more accessible to the community