September 30, 2025 Africa's Research and Education Networks achieve historic Lagos-Cape Town Interconnection Africa's Research and Education Networks achieve historic Lagos-Cape Town Interconnection Enabled by WACREN, SANReN, and TENET, the link creates the first-ever inter-RREN connection on African soil. The African research and education landscape has taken a historic leap forward. WACREN (the... Read More
September 22, 2025 WACREN Connects Six New Countries and Sets Foundation for Climate Programme Expanding the WACREN Backbone The historic expansion brings The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, and Senegal into WACREN's high-speed, low-latency network, joining six other countries. Supported by the AfricaConnect projects co-funded by the European Commission, this advancement represents a... Read More
September 18, 2025 Dr. Boubakar Barry - One Year On, Legacy Still Lives Today marks exactly one year since the passing of Dr Boubakar Barry, our founding CEO and a visionary leader whose work transformed research and educational networking in Africa. Dr Barry dedicated his life to building digital bridges across the continent,... Read More
September 9, 2025 LIBSENSE is expanding its Early Career Researchers (ECR) Network and therefore invites interested researchers and librarians to join its growing ECR Network. This initiative aims to foster a vibrant, interdisciplinary community of early-career scholars who actively shape the future of... Read More
August 5, 2025 AfricaConnect featured in ITU initiative publication P2C Flash, a monthly online publication of Partner2Connect (an initiative launched by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has featured the AfricaConnect project its sixth edition. Partner2Connect is aimed at achieving universal, meaningful internet connectivity worldwide, especially in the hardest-to-reach communities... Read More
April 29, 2025 Grant call: Strengthening no-fee open access publishing in Africa EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) invite African organizations - legal entities that own open access (OA) journals that do not charge any fees for either authors or readers (often... Read More
April 28, 2025 COPPHA Community of Practice established The Coalition for Open Access Publishing of Public Health in Africa (COPPHA) Community of Practice (CoP) has been established to connect and support public health researchers, early career scholars, educators, and open science advocates across Africa. Led by PublicHealth.Africa (PHA) with support... Read More
April 28, 2025 Call for Expressions of Interest: Reconfiguring PublicHealth.Africa PHA was established to leverage the skills of those with experience in public health to improve the health of populations in Africa. Initial work has focused on conducting surveys and supporting online courses in peer review and open publishing, together with... Read More
April 8, 2025 WACREN Appoints Dr. Eyouléki T. G. Palanga as Chief Executive Officer The West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Eyouléki T. G. Palanga as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective April 1, 2025, for a term of four (4) years.... Read More
March 4, 2025 Extension for RFQ for 2Mbps Internet Connectivity with Public IPs WACREN has extended the deadline for the RFQ to March 21. Click to see Request For Quote Please direct all queries and quote submissions to procurement@wacren.net Read More
February 27, 2025 African Union publishes article on the value of RENs The African Union has published an article in its AU ECHO Magazine on the value of the African Research and Education Networks (RENs) AfricaConnect3 project. The article "Réseaux de recherche et d’éducation : Surmonter les obstacles à l’éducation sur le... Read More
February 25, 2025 Call for Applications: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of WACREN The West and Central Africa Education and Research Network (WACREN) is seeking to recruit a candidate for the position of CEO to lead the organization in strengthening its activities in the service of research, higher education and digital innovation in... Read More