Facebook Inc.’s investment in an enormous underwater internet cable circling Africa will move forward with help from partners in China, Saudi Arabia and Europe, the companies said Thursday.
The 2Africa internet project, called Simba in its planning phase, would link 16 African countries with cable routes to Europe and the Arabian Peninsula.
Economic colonialism
....you mean after the great Trans-Atlantic undersea build-out, of the boom, there isn't enough underwater cabling ?
They are the New Infrastructure of the Globalization. The new material and numerical borders and processes of borderization of the world. These cables are, at the same time, the highways of global connection and the news global borders which surround one entire continent.
Looks like someone wants to control all social media and internet efforts in every country. Trump2020