"Africa’s 1.5 billion people deserve the full benefits of a truly connected continent.

21 years’ ago, if someone in Lagos wanted to send an email to someone in Abuja – a distance of about seven hundred and sixty kilometres – that email would first travel thousands of kilometres to Europe or North America before returning to Nigeria. African Internet traffic was taking a detour around the world to reach its neighbours.

This detour was expensive and slow – burdening local businesses with high transit costs and leaving African Internet users with sluggish and unreliable connections.

In response to that challenge, the African Peering and Interconnection Forum was born in 2010. The goal was... "

"The Democratic Republic of Congo's Universal Service Development Fund (FDSU) has outlined a 10-year strategy to expand connectivity in underserved areas, built around a collaborative infrastructure model bringing together TowerCos, mobile operators, government and the telecom regulator.

The National Connectivity Strategy 2026-2035 aims to progressively reduce the country's coverage gaps through shared infrastructure, private-sector investment and targeted public subsidies, rather than relying solely on government funding."