On 19 November 2025, a ceremony was held in the capital city Niamey to mark the completion and provisional acceptance of 1,031-km of fibre optic network deployed under the Trans-Saharan Backbone (Dorsale Transsaharienne à fibre optique, DTS) initiative. According to an African Development Bank press release, this includes the completion of 1,031-km of fibre-optic sections along five key routes in the country: Arlit - Assamaka to the Algerian border; Diffa to N'Guigmi and the Chad border; Zinder to Magaria and the Nigerian border; Niamey to Dosso, Gaya and the Benin border; and Niamey to Makalondi and the Burkina Faso border. The project also includes the installation of a Tier III national data centre, and 88-km of metropolitan fibre to connect the main administrative sites to the future national data centre. The DTS project involves the completion of missing fibre optic links in Niger and Chad to complete a Trans-Saharan fibre optic backbone interconnecting Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Mali (see Chad: MoU Signed For Trans-Saharan Fibre Optic Backbone (DTS) Project Connecting Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Mali).
Source: African Development Bank
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