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Fighting Back Against Internet Shutdowns in Zimbabwe

Fighting Back Against Internet Shutdowns in Zimbabwe

Internet shutdowns are on the rise. In 2023, 18 countries, including eight in Africa, experienced 124 shutdown events, according to Pulse. Although Zimbabwe was not one of these countries, it has experienced several confirmed and alleged shutdown events
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Empowering DNS Operators: Exploring the KINDNS Initiative for a More Secure Internet

Improving Regional Internet Registry Alignment
in the RPKI Space

As a result of the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Strategic Review Process, which started in 2022, the NRO agreed to work towards providing a robust, coordinated, and secure Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) service as one of the main priorities.
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AFRINIC's Key Achievements in 2023

AFRINIC's Key
Achievements in 2023

AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa and the Indian Ocean and currently serves 56 economies across its service region. In 2023, AFRINIC achieved significant milestones in its activities despite the ongoing constraints of operating without a CEO and quorate Board throughout the year. The year was quite significant as it marked the final year of the 2021 - 2023 Strategic Plan.
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DNS Support Program

The DNS is one of the main components of AFRINIC services, specifically reverse DNS services for IP addresses as defined in RFC 1033 and RFC 3152.  Recent development has led all RIR to host servers for the IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA zones, according to RFC 5855."To support this increased responsibility ...
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Internet Development Program

The AFRINIC Internet Development Programs envisions a secure and accessible Internet for sustainable digital growth in Africa. Our objective for these programs is to increase investment in Internet development in the AFRINIC Service Region through capacity building, research and technical collaboration ...
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Internet Routing Registry

In the most simple and basic manner, a network operator (or AFRINIC member) can describe routing policy into the AFRINIC IRR by using a route or route6 (whois database) object. For advanced networks requiring complex definition of their routing policies, RPSL provides advanced technical attributes ...
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Training Services

AFRINIC's Capacity Building program is dedicated to providing the African Internet community with validated knowledge and know-how to help them deploy Internet technologies with ease and align with the latest industry best practices. Our courses are specifically designed to assist network engineers in securely
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