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Cloud Innovation calls for ‘Immediate designation of a successor RIR’ after AFRINIC wind-up petition
Cloud Innovation urges ICANN and NRO to urgently appoint a successor RIR as AFRINIC faces potential legal liquidation.
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What happens to Africa’s IP management if AFRINIC is liquidated?
Cloud Innovation calls for AFRINIC’s court-led dissolution, urging a decentralised IP system as ICANN issues an ICP-2 warning.
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Cloud Innovation: AFRINIC’s board “Legally Void” after invalid vote
AFRINIC, Cloud Innovation, RIR, Africa Internet, Internet Registry, Election Controversy
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ICANN recognised AFRINIC, but then turned away
AFRINIC gained ICANN recognition in 2005, but without the support and resources it needed, the RIR quickly fell apart.
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AFRINIC’s chaotic election sparks calls for reform
AFRINIC’s controversial 2024 board election deepens trust crisis as disqualified candidates and legal disputes spark calls for urgent reform.
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Central Bank of Congo
The Central Bank of Congo manages currency, monetary policy, and financial stability in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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AFRINIC’s use of RPKI to prevent hijacks
AFRINIC uses RPKI to help African networks prevent IP hijacks, secure routing, and strengthen internet resilience across the region.
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AFRINIC’s RPKI delays leave African internet vulnerable
Afrinic’s 30% RPKI adoption lags behind global standards, leaving African networks exposed to route hijacking and security breaches.
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What Africa’s internet looked like before AFRINIC
Before AFRINIC, Africa’s IP address allocations were handled by global registries through structured, neutral processes. This article explains how Cloud Innovation lawfully received its resources and how courts later upheld those rights against efforts by AFRINIC to revoke them.
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LKNOG 9 conference: Networking, AI, and innovation in Sri Lanka
LKNOG 9 Conference in Colombo will address AI’s impact, resilient networks, and emerging technologies, fostering talent and knowledge sharing.
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Why AFRINIC policy development is so slow
Institutional gridlock and eroding community trust AFRINIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa, is responsible for managing IP address allocations and shaping policy through its Policy Development Process (PDP). Designed to be bottom-up, open, and community-driven…
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AFRINIC’s Financial Strategy Raises Accountability Concerns
Ongoing election disputes at AFRINIC raise doubts about its governance and could destabilise internet services across Africa.
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ICANN’s ‘failure’ and ‘hypocrisy’ highlighted by expert as WSIS+20 starts
AFRINIC: The catalyst that backfired As ICANN attempts to control the narrative at the UN’s WSIS+20 summit, digital sovereignty advocate Sophia Bekele has revived long-buried evidence of systemic manipulation, exposing the organisation’s selective moralism and a legacy of…
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Could a public audit save AFRINIC from collapse?
Calls grow for an independent audit to expose AFRINIC’s financial mismanagement and restore trust in the organisation.
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How AFRINIC’s board elections became a political battlefield
AFRINIC’s cancelled 2025 board election reveals deep political infighting and raises concerns over governance and institutional integrity.
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What happens after you submit an IP request to AFRINIC
The IP request process includes validation, invoicing, and allocation steps designed to support fair distribution across the African region.
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Ofcom shortens complaint window, telcos voice objections
Ofcom shortens telecom complaint timeline from eight to six weeks, prompting concern from major providers about operational pressures.
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Why AFRINIC’s fallout has global implications for internet governance
AFRINIC’s ongoing crisis is exposing deeper vulnerabilities in the global internet governance model, questioning the viability.
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ARCEP's African regulatory role is a cooperation channel, not a colonial control story
Arcep France is not an African regulator and it does not control African telecom markets. The evidence-led story is narrower and more useful: Arcep acts as a French regulatory export node inside Francophone regulatory cooperation. Through Fratel, the 2025 Abidjan seminar, the…
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How AFRINIC is helping Africa embrace IPv6
AFRINIC supports Africa’s IPv6 transition with free training, deployathons, policy guidance and government collaboration.
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RIR Watchdog
Five regional sessions tracking allocation policy, board legitimacy, and institutional continuity.
Open RIR WatchdogCase File
Long-cycle governance dossiers with legal, election, and institutional stress analysis.
Open Case FileNumber Resource Society
Membership, charter, and resource-governance intelligence from the NRS ecosystem.
Open NRS SessionICANN
DNS coordination, accountability frameworks, and global multi-stakeholder process dynamics.
Open ICANN SessionIETF
Protocol standardization trajectory and interoperability risk under fragmented policy conditions.
Open IETF SessionHistory of Internet
Long-cycle infrastructure history used for governance interpretation and structural forecasting.
Open History SessionNOGs
Operator-level implementation intelligence from APRICOT plus regional and national NOG ecosystems.
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