On 3^rd Feb 2011 the world observed a historical moment when the last five /8 of IANA's IPv4 pool was finally allocated to the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). AfriNIC, the Internet Registry for Africa got 102/8 of the allocation. The depletion of IPv4 imply that the next generation of the Internet will now depend on the new IPv6 addresses.

Refer to the ICANN press release for more details.