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“Dr Barry became the Coordinator the Research and Education Networking Unit at the Association of African Universities in 2006 and was elected Director of UbuntuNet Alliance in 2011.He has  brought great wisdom to the positions. When advice or information is...

Full text at http://euroafrica-ict.org/files/2013/10/EuroAfrica-ICT-Newsletter_Sept.2013_Interview-of-the-month_Boubakar-Barry.pdf.

After a search and nomination process by the WACREN community, the Search and Nomination Committee mandated to drive this process is happy to announce that the exercise has been completed successfully.21 nominations of 15 Nominees were received and the Committee...

Dr. Nii Quaynor accepting the Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer award.WACREN joins family, friends and associates to congratulate a worthy son of Africa on this well deserved acknowledgement of his inspiring work in developing the Internet in Africa and his role...

The West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) held its 1st Annual General Meeting on the 3rd July 2013 at the National Universities Commission in Abuja, Nigeria, with ngREN, the Nigerian NREN, as host. The AGM was preceded...

WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance recently signed an Operational Collaboration Agreement. The two recognize that they have common needs in their endeavors to interconnect their regional networks to each other; to major research and education networks; and commodity Internet Exchange Points...

The First General Assembly of the NigerREN was held on Saturday, December 15, 2013 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in the University of Niamey.   Professor Habibou Abarchi, Rector of the Université Abdou Moumouni and chair of the NigerREN board...

The National Universities Commission (NUC) of Nigeria has started a procurement process for a backbone for the Nigerian Research and Education Network (ngREN).  In this initial campus interconnection phase, the project office is inviting bids for IP/MPLS based network infrastructure...

After several years of collaboration, the TogoREN  was finally born on  July 13, 2012 at the University of Lome in the presence of the academic communities of Lome and Kara, and officials of private higher education and research managers in...

The president of the WACREN board of directors with counterpart, Prof. Zimani Kadzamira at the UbuntuNet-Connect 2011 which was colocated with the first AfricaConnect Administrative and Technical Meetings

At the joint workshop WACREN-RENATER-AAU cooperation, National Network for Education and Research of Senegal (SnRER) was designated as the first Network Operations Center (NOC) of WACREN. For this, a letter of intent has been exchanged between the Chairman of the...

Following the meeting of representatives of 11 countries in West Africa and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo) in initiative of Research and Education Networking Unit (RENU) of the Association of...