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MOROCCO
The World Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Expo and Summit will debut in Casablanca , with unified support to catalyse Morocco ’ s thriving manufacturing economy towards next-generation industries . Taking place from 28 – 30 October 2025 at the Foire Internationale de Casablanca , WAM Morocco is organised by KAOUN International , the force behind GITEX GLOBAL and GITEX Africa in Morocco .
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EGYPT
Nutanix announced that Al Dahra , a global agribusiness company with operations in Egypt and across 20 countries , has successfully migrated its IT infrastructure to a Nutanix Cloud Clusters environment on Amazon Web Services . The move has resulted in a 10x improvement in the performance of business-critical applications and a 60 % reduction in cloud costs , empowering the company to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively .
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NIGERIA
TelCables Nigeria , a subsidiary of Angola Cables has said that it will open a new PoP at the Lagos Rack Centre facility to boost low-latency interconnectivity and cloud access across West Africa . This expansion aims to enhance digital connectivity across West Africa using the extensive Angola Cables backbone network to support businesses and communities obtain easier , more affordable access to digital content and services .
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SOUTH AFRICA
Cisco announced findings from the Cisco 2024 AI Readiness Index . The index reveals that only 18 % organisations in South Africa are fully prepared to deploy and leverage AI-powered technologies . This underscores the challenges companies face in adopting , deploying , and leveraging AI . Despite AI investments , many companies report that returns on these investments are not meeting their expectations .
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CÔTE D ’ IVOIRE
Yango in Côte d ’ Ivoire has teamed up with COFINA , a mesofinance institution in the country and Yabx , an embedded finance platform that builds credit profiles for thin , no file customers to introduce a Driver Cash Advance service . This is a digital loan product that will improve access to credit for many individuals and businesses . Beneficiaries will have instant access to up to XOF 300,000 , US $ 500 cash advances and flexible repayment options of over two to eight weeks .
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In Libya , DDoS attacks have increased in both volume and sophistication as the country ’ s digital infrastructure develops to meet growing connectivity demands . The primary attack vectors reported during 1H 2024 included DNS amplification , which was used in 698 incidents ; ICMP , Internet Control Message Protocol , seen in 337 attacks ; STUN , Session Traversal Utilities for Network Address Translator , 211 attacks .
Having experienced 452 DDOS attacks over the first half of 2024 , Algeria ’ s primary DDoS targets are in the wired telecommunications sector , with 411 incidents , as well as computing infrastructure providers . Cybercriminals primarily use DNS amplification techniques , emphasising Algeria ’ s need for resilient network protection solutions to sustain critical communications infrastructure .
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