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Burundi: Zambia and Burundi Sign MoU For Fibre Optic Link Through Lake Tanganyika

The Zambian government announced during October 2024 that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Burundi to facilitate the deployment of a bilateral fibre optic connection between the two countries. According to a government press release, a submarine fibre optic cable will be laid under Lake Tanganyika from Mpulungu District in Northern Province of Zambia, along the lake into Burundi. The Minister of Technology and Science Felix Mutati said that the private sector has commenced work on the project.

Bandwidth and Cloud Services (BCS) previously announced during 2022 that it was deploying a submarine fibre optic cable link through Lake Tanganyika to connect the towns of Bukavu, Uvira, Baraka and Kalemie in Eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), and to serve as an alternate gateway in Eastern and Southern Africa (see DRC: BCS Deploys Submarine Cable Through Lake Tanganyika From Uvira – Kalemie). BCS previously laid a cross-border submarine cable through Lake Albert between Uganda and DRC during 2019, and in 2020 deployed a second cable through Lake Albert as a backup.

Source: Zambian government

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