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🇨🇫 Bangui

Sub-Riverine Fiber Connection Ring

Inaugurated in February 2023, this 935 km fiber backbone links Bangui to Cameroon and the Republic of Congo via terrestrial and river crossings, financed by the African Development Bank and the European Union (about $36 million). The government says it will cut national internet costs; independent price data confirming that has not been located.

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📡 Data & IoTConnectivity & 5G
Scale🌍 National
Cost≈$36M (XAF 22 billion, AfDB + EU)

📖 Terms in this entry: LoRaWAN

Sources

⏳ Ministère des Postes et Télécoms (authority) — link coming soonOfficial national registry detailing structural telecommunications tools.
↗ African Development Bank — Central African Backbone inaugurationFurther information on the project.
↗ Wikipedia — Central African BackboneEncyclopedia article with the full story and timeline of the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇳🇪 Niamey Urban Fibre Loop — Trans-Saharan Backbone Project · Niamey Both are AfDB/EU-financed fibre backbones from the same period — Niamey's loop feeds a planned data centre, Bangui's crosses two borders. 🇸🇪 Stokab: Stockholm's Municipal Open-Access Dark Fibre Network · Stockholm Bangui just finished laying its cross-border fibre ring; Stockholm's Stokab shows what comes after — leasing it on equal terms. 🇸🇿 Mbabane Smart City & 5G Project · Mbabane Different donors, same continent: Bangui's fibre ring cost AfDB and the EU about $36M, Mbabane's project a $2M Taiwanese grant.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Sub-Riverine Fiber Connection Ring” — Bangui, Central African Republic. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bangui-telecom-gateway/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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