DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Africa, IFC
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Airtel Africa secures $150m loan from IFC for network modernization upgrades
Will support two of Airtel's African subsidiaries
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WIOCC secures additional $65m in sustainability-linked loans for digital infrastructure expansion
Funding comes from IFC, Proparco, Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund, and Ninety-One
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IFC commits $100m in debt financing to Raxio Group
Funding will enable the operator to double its data center deployment
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NCA and IFC agree framework for Somalian subsea cables
New frameworks in place for subsea cables
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WIOCC secures sutainability-linked loans to fund OADC roll-out
IFC, Proparco, and RMB contribute to financing
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Senegal’s Sonatel secures €87 million sustainability-linked loan
Money to fund tower and fiber build-out; repayments tied to women in leadership goals
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Togocom nets $60m loan from IFC
Loan will be used to modernize the telco's network
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Airtel Africa takes out $194m loan to push connectivity drive
Money will be split between six markets
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IFC invests $30 million in WIOCC
Investment to fund terrestrial and subsea fiber as well as OADC roll-out
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Cloudoon plans 'Kenya's largest data center'
Company planning 10MW facility along Tana River
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IFC invests in DigitalBridge’s Scala Data Centers
IFC funding data center and tower infrastructure in LatAm, South East Asia, and Africa