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On 13 September 2023, Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) announced the launch of two new fully redundant terrestrial routes, from Kenya to Ethiopia and Zambia to Malawi. The first is a 1,000-km fibre route from Nairobi in Kenya to Mega, a town in southern Ethiopia, in partnership with Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) and Ethiopia Electric Power (EEP). According to a company press release, this route has a capacity of 4 Tbps, complements the existing terrestrial routes across this border, and runs via Nairobi, Suswa, Sereolipi, Ndaragwa, Marsabit and Mega. In October 2017, Liquid Telecom Kenya signed a 10-year partnership with KETRACO to operate its Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) fibre cable and expand the internet network across East Africa (see Kenya: Liquid Telecom and KETRACO Partner to Build Fibre Network Across Kenya and East Africa). The second route is a 711-km cross-border fibre route from Zambia to Malawi, with routes from Chipata to Lilongwe (the capital). During June, Liquid announced that its regional fibre optic network had reached 110,000-km (see DRC: Liquid Dataport Launches Shortest Fibre Route Connecting The East Coast To The West Coast Of Africa).

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