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African legislators pledge to enhance internet governance

Parliamentarians met for a critical capacity-building session aimed at improving internet governance on the continent.
Rwandan correspondent
1:20
May 30, 2024

Rwanda to host world’s biggest internet forum

The ICANN80 Policy Forum will bring together global stakeholders, including governments, companies, civil society, academia, and the technical community.
1:10
Feb 2, 2024

ICANN targets Kenya with a $10 million grant program

The grant money is intended to fund projects that promote an inclusive and transparent approach to building robust, user-friendly, secure Internet infrastructure solutions.
2:40
Nov 24, 2023

Telecom Egypt, ICANN activate Africa’s second managed root server

The new installation is housed in Telecom Egypt's Regional Data Hub, the company's largest international, Tier III data centre.
4:20
Jan 31, 2014

Delays hit .africa sunrise launch phase

Two factors slow the process, resulting in general availability being pushed to late 2014.
3:50
Nov 5, 2012

Goodbye .dotafrica and hello .africa

Kenya’s Dot Connect Africa (DCA) officially enters race for Africa’s internet domain name.
6:00
Aug 17, 2012

The $185,000 dotafrica internet domain name ‘misunderstanding’?

DotConnectAfrica says it intended to apply for .africa and not .dotafrica from ICANN.