Africa Streaming & Infrastructure Registry

What this is: every country and island state in the registry, with everything tracked there.

Pick up to four countries to see them side by side.

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What this is: the same company’s activity across different countries and dates, grouped into one story.

What this is: announcements that have not yet happened — deals without launch dates, decisions still pending, promises not yet kept.

Open — no outcome yet, still genuinely unresolved

Resolved — a later event answered the question

Closed — this specific path was ruled out (a different path may still be open)

Stale — 12+ months with zero visible movement; may be quietly shelved

What this is: who holds the controlling stake in each operator, traced to public disclosures.

Majority foreign ownership — a confirmed non-African entity holds the controlling stake

Foreign state ownership — a foreign government or its investment fund holds the controlling stake

Domestic state ownership — owned outright by the African government where it operates

No foreign controlling stake identified — the available disclosures show African founders or companies in control; this describes what's disclosed, not a full cap-table audit

No controlling shareholder identified — publicly traded with dispersed ownership; no single party holds a majority

Ownership not publicly disclosed — no reliable public record of who actually controls it

The throughline: several operators here involve foreign-controlled capital operating through an African-domiciled or African-facing company. Vodacom is JSE-listed and headquartered in Johannesburg; its majority holder is the UK's Vodafone Group. Canal+ is a different kind of case: no single shareholder holds a majority at all (Bolloré's ~30% is the largest stake, well short of control), which matters for MultiChoice — Canal+'s effective control of Africa's largest pay-TV operator rests on a takeover by a company nobody outright controls. MTN, Azam TV, EbonyLife, and Kava show no foreign controlling stake in what's been disclosed; SABC, Ethio Telecom, and the Nigerian and Angolan state entries are outright state-owned. New World TV is the case where the record itself is thin — its ownership isn't clearly on file anywhere.

What this is: every event in the registry regrouped by the company behind it, so one operator’s activity appears in a single record.

What this is: what this registry holds, and where its coverage is concentrated.