Istio-ingressgateway LoadBalancer IP status just stays pending

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Hi guys please i need some help. i have just deployed a kubernetes cluster using kubeadm in a linux machine. currently using istio ingress gateway. issue is i can’t seem to get external traffic into the cluster. the istio-ingressgateway LoadBalancer IP status just stays pending. below is my Gateway resource definition. thanks in advance

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: Gateway
metadata:
  name: backend-gateway
spec:
  selector:
    istio: ingressgateway
  servers:
    - port:
        number: 80
        name: http
        protocol: HTTP
      hosts:
        - "***.africa"
        - "***.africa"
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