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2Africa Submarine Cable’ s core infrastructure completed by China Mobile International
China Mobile International( CMI), along with seven global partners including Bayobab, center3, Meta, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Group and WIOCC, has jointly completed the core 2Africa Submarine Cable Infrastructure( 2Africa).
CMI’ s global submarine cable layout and international connectivity resources, providing a robust digital infrastructure to accelerate Digital Transformation and digital economic development in Africa and surrounding regions.
Circling the African continent and connecting intercontinental nodes across Europe, Asia and beyond, 2Africa will further expand
As the first cable to continuously link Africa’ s east and west within a single system, 2Africa adopts an open-access model. Spanning over 45,000 kilometres, it connects 33- plus countries and regions across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia, with a design capacity of 180Tbps. According to estimates, 2Africa is projected to contribute up to US $ 36.9 billion to Africa’ s GDP within the first two to three years of operation. and Equiano, enhancing the multi-ring network covering Africa.
Following the commissioning of key segments, CMI has optimised resource allocation along the Arabian Sea, the eastern and western coasts of Africa and Europe. It has also created synergies with highcapacity submarine cables such as PEACE
Leveraging global network resources in Djibouti, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and elsewhere, as well as systems such as IAX-IEX, 2Africa integrates Eurasia- Africa bandwidth with terrestrial cable and PoP extensions.
Cyble and Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority( BOCRA) sign MoU to advance national cybersecurity in Botswana
Cyble, a global leader in cybersecurity, threat intelligence and digital risk protection, has announced the signing of a landmark MoU with the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority( BOCRA), in collaboration with the Botswana National CSIRT.
This strategic partnership aims to strengthen Botswana’ s national cybersecurity ecosystem and accelerate the country’ s cyberresilience efforts amid rising global cyberthreats.
The MoU establishes a collaboration focused on enhancing Botswana’ s cyber defence capabilities, improving incident response readiness and empowering national stakeholders with access to Cyble’ s advanced threat intelligence technologies.
Cyble will support BOCRA with real-time intelligence on emerging threats, including insights from Cyble’ s proprietary AI-native platforms that track malicious activity across the open, deep and Dark Web. This enhanced situational awareness will enable Botswana’ s cybersecurity teams to identify and respond to risk indicators with greater speed and accuracy, reducing the potential impact on critical infrastructure, businesses and citizens.
Capacity building and skills development will also form a key pillar of this partnership, with the initiative aiming to support knowledge transfer and help create a sustainable cybersecurity talent pipeline within the country.
“ This partnership reflects our continued commitment to supporting national cybersecurity priorities across Africa,” noted Manish Chachada, Co-founder and COO of Cyble.“ By combining Cyble’ s threat intelligence expertise with BOCRA’ s regulatory leadership, we are confident in our ability to strengthen Botswana’ s cyber resilience and help the nation navigate the rapidly evolving threat landscape.”
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