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AFRINIC

The Supreme Court of Mauritius orders AFRINIC to not include Dr. A. Omari in Board Meetings

The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa. It is responsible for the distribution and management of Internet number resources (IPv4, IPv6 and ASN) for the African and Indian Ocean region.

Ish Sookun

1 min read
openSUSE

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Released, Let's party 🥳 🍻

openSUSE Leap uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), which gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions, and combines that with community developments to give users, developers and sysadmins the best stable Linux experience available.

Ish Sookun

2 min read
MIXP

Final candidate slate for the MIXP Management Committee 2022 – 2023

The Mauritius Internet Exchange Point (MIXP) is the first Internet exchange point in Mauritius. It is open to any network operator that believes that they can make their network more efficient through peering. The MIXP Management Committee is composed of 7 members elected by the peering members.

Ish Sookun

1 min read
AFRINIC

Benjamin Eshun appointed as Chairman & Dr. Abdalla Omari, Vice-Chairman of AFRINIC

The AFRINIC Annual General Members’ Meeting (AGMM) is held once a year, usually during an AFRINIC Public Policy Meeting.

Ish Sookun

1 min read
AFRINIC

AFRINIC restricts attendance to the Annual General Members Meeting (AGMM) even ONLINE 😐

The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) is an annual, regional, multi-stakeholder ICT conference. AIS'22 is jointly organised by the Africa Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) in collaboration with the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG).

Ish Sookun

1 min read
AFRINIC

AFRINIC – CEO Impromptu Travel & attempt to oust the Board Chair

The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa. It is responsible for the distribution and management of Internet number resources (IPv4, IPv6 and ASN) for the African and Indian Ocean region.

Ish Sookun

2 min read
openSUSE

A local mirror for openSUSE users in Mauritius 🥳

This is something I had planned since long — a local mirror for openSUSE users. The only hiccup to it was finding a server & bandwidth sponsor. In fact, sponsorship is usually the struggle for open source projects and/or activities, in Mauritius.

Ish Sookun

2 min read
Meetup

Front-end Coders Meetup

The Front-end Coders are back on the meetup scene. This blog post is a sum-up of the meetup that happened on Saturday 9 April 2022 at Prodigious, Ebène.

Ish Sookun

4 min read
Censorship

Hindi film « The Kashmir Files » has been rejected by the Film Classification Board of Mauritius — an appeal has been made by mCine

The Kashmir Files is a Hindi film directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri. The film's story is based on video interviews of the first generation victims of the Genocide of Kashmiri Pandit Community In 1990. Among the cast are film stars like Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Joshi & Puneet Issar.

Ish Sookun

1 min read