This is a list of terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa. While submarine communications cables are used to connect countries and continents to the Internet, terrestrial fibre optic cables are used to extend this connectivity to landlocked countries or to urban centers within a country that has submarine cable access. In most of the world, a large number of such cables exist, often amounting to robust Internet backbones. The lack of such high-speed cables poses a great problem for most African countries. The construction of both submarine cables and their terrestrial extensions is thus considered an important step to economic growth and development to many African countries. Countries Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Chad Cote d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti Egypt eSwatini Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Guinea Kenya Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Notes This list was initially developed as part of AfTerFibre, a project to map terrestrial fibre optic cable projects in Africa. The project was sponsored by Google Africa and, on completion, will be hosted by the UbuntuNet Alliance. All information gathered by the project will be publicly available under an open license. See also List of international submarine communications cables Central African Backbone Kenya Data Networks Telecommunications in Namibia Internet in Ethiopia People's Republic of China – Ghana relations References External links AfTerFibre Google Group AfTerFibre Map Greg's Cable Map African Undersea Cables Optical telecommunications cables