Yes, I'm well aware that Africa in not a country.

We are currently already rolled out in South Africa and will be adding PoPs in two locations in North Africa, and one each in East Africa and West Africa.

The idea is to get good latency coverage across African countries. Once we are rolled out in all those locations we'll be looking at latencies from specific countries to see where we should be adding extra PoPs. The actual locations of our PoPs depends partly on the political geography and partly on the Internet geography. Our goal is minimal latency for maximum population. For example, it might not make sense to have (hypothetical here) a PoP in Ouagadougou if the Internet connectivity to Accra is fantastic, but despite the relative proximity it might turn out that a PoP in Abuja is better than trying to serve Nigeria from Ghana. We'll monitor performance see where we should be.

See, for example, the discussion of latency change related to our Johannesburg PoP across southern Africa: https://blog.cloudflare.com/johannesburg-cloudflares-30th-da...

We've done the same in Europe. For example, we have a number of PoPs in eastern parts of Europe but not in every country.

Thanks for the clarification, and the link. I'm from Zimbabwe, i guess due to our political geography we can wave goodbye to any dreams of a PoP here, lol.