EASSY Project Reaches Financial Close

The African Development Bank (AfDB), along with other participating development financial institutions (DFIs), have signed loan agreements for the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), the landmark fibre-optic cable project that will connect 22 coastal and land-locked African countries to each other and the rest of the world with high-quality Internet and international communications services.

EASSy is an initiative sponsored by 25 telecommunications operators, most of which are African.

The project will construct and operate a submarine fibre-optic cable along the east coast of Africa that will run for 10,000 kilometers from the continent's southern tip to the Horn of Africa, connecting South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, and Sudan.

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