Region

Africa Mauritius

Articles assigned to this region label.

Subject-specific editorial image for Lu Heng: Smart Africa’s push for ‘digital sovereignty’ threatens Mauritius’s role as Africa’s internet hub, illustrating the BTW intelligence profile "Lu Heng: Smart Africa’s push for ‘digital sovereignty’ threatens Mauritius’s role as Africa’s internet hub".

Events

Smart Africa's digital-sovereignty push tests AFRINIC neutrality and Mauritius's hub claim

Smart Africa has cast AFRINIC's crisis as a digital-sovereignty issue and backed election and reform activity. Lu Heng and Cloud Innovation argue that this r…

May 26, 2026
AFRINIC election governance image for a risk-control briefing on proxy disputes, voting legitimacy, and registry oversight.

Governance

Top risks to watch in the next AFRINIC election and how to mitigate them

AFRINIC's next election depends on receiver authority, member eligibility, proxy controls, voting constraints, visible results, and dispute channels.

May 26, 2026
AFRINIC election verification illustration showing a court gavel, African network map, and registry governance context.

Governance

How to verify AFRINIC election outcomes

AFRINIC election outcomes can only be verified through receiver notices, voter eligibility records, proxy controls, court compliance, and member-visible resu…

May 26, 2026
AFRINIC governance image for analysis of election crisis and African multistakeholder internet governance.

Governance

What the AFRINIC election crisis signals for the multistakeholder model of internet governance in Africa

AFRINIC's election crisis tests whether African number-resource governance can return to transparent, member-verifiable control.

May 26, 2026
ICANN logo image used as source-context artwork for the AFRINIC receiver appointment update.

Events

ICANN receiver update anchors AFRINIC's court-supervised board reset

ICANN's March 2025 receiver update records the court appointment of Gowtamsingh Dabee over AFRINIC and makes board reconstruction a legitimacy test.

May 26, 2026
Generated editorial image of a courthouse corridor with sealed case files, blank ballot envelopes and a blurred Africa network map

Events

AFRINIC's election clock is now a test of registry trust

The 2024 SCJ 473 judgment restored AFRINIC's Official Receiver order and made the election timetable a member-verifiable legitimacy test.

Oct 24, 2024
AFRINIC governance image for a court-supervised receiver order and six-month election mandate.

Events

AFRINIC elections to be held within six months

The September 2023 Mauritius receiver order made AFRINIC's board-election restoration a court-supervised governance event.

May 26, 2026