by Hastings Ndebvu | Apr 25, 2019 | Board, Press Release, Stories
25th April 2019, Lilongwe, Malawi: The Chairperson of UbuntuNet Alliance, Prof. Stephen Simukanga is pleased to announce the appointment of Malawian Engineer Dr. Matthews Mtumbuka as the new CEO of the Eastern and Southern Africa Research and Education Network...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Jan 3, 2019 | Board, Press Release, Stories
3rd January 2019: Lilongwe, Malawi: The Chairperson, Professor Stephen Simukanga and Members of the Board of Trustees of UbuntuNet Alliance are pleased to announce the appointment of Eng. Dr. Francis “Tusu” Tusubira as acting CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance effective 1st...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Jun 29, 2018 | AfricaConnect, Connectivity, Donors, Members, Network, Press Release, Projects, SomaliREN, Stories, World Bank
29 June 2018/ Lilongwe, Malawi and Mogadishu, Somalia UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking is pleased to announce that it has successfully connected SomaliREN, the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Somalia to the UbuntuNet network,...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Jun 27, 2018 | AfricaConnect, ASREN, GEANT, Partners, Press Release, Projects, Stories
H.E. Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) and H.E. Prof. Mohamed Khalfaoui, Director of Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST) have signed an agreement under which ASREN will provide a...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Feb 1, 2018 | Board, Press Release, Stories
UbuntuNet Alliance is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Stephen Simukanga, as its Chairperson for the next three years effective 20th September 2017. Professor Simukanga is the Director General of the Higher Education Authority of Zambia and former Vice...
by Hastings Ndebvu | Feb 1, 2018 | AfricaConnect, Press Release, Stories, WACREN
The EU-funded AfricaConnect2 project has just announced that, following the call for tenders to connect West and Central (W&C) Africa published back in June 2016, GÉANT has awarded a 15-year contract to MainOne for connectivity services. By signing the contract...
