en.Wedoany.com Reported - Pan-African infrastructure company CSquared Group has announced its connection to the 2Africa West submarine cable system to increase capacity in submarine systems near West Africa. This move aims to enhance route diversity and improve the resilience of international and regional connectivity in West and Central Africa.
According to Meta's engineering team, the 2Africa infrastructure is the world's longest open-access submarine cable system and the first to connect East and West Africa as a continuous system, linking Africa to the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe. This core infrastructure was completed in November 2025, initially covering 33 countries.
International connectivity in West Africa is concentrated at a few coastal cable landing stations, including Accra, Lagos, and Abidjan. This concentration means that a single infrastructure disruption often affects multiple networks simultaneously, with three such incidents occurring in the past 28 months. In March 2024, cable damage caused by an underwater landslide near Côte d'Ivoire led to widespread service disruptions across several countries in the region. In June 2026, a submarine system cut near Côte d'Ivoire also impacted multiple countries, with MTN Ghana confirming that a submarine cable cut off the coast of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, was disrupting internet connectivity and data services in Ghana and several other countries in the sub-region.
CSquared's new capacity on 2Africa West introduces an independent submarine route to its existing international architecture. This architecture includes the Equiano system, which lands in Nigeria, Togo, and neighboring countries (Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso) via a terrestrial backbone network. By combining multiple submarine systems with CSquared's terrestrial backbone, operators can obtain physically diverse international routes and achieve automatic traffic rerouting across the network. This architecture ensures continued service availability in the event of a disruption to any single submarine system or landing station. CSquared's fiber backbone connects international cable landing stations to inland markets in Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
Samuel Owusu Yeboah, Chief Technology Officer of CSquared Group, stated that digital services, cloud platforms, and mobile networks rely on resilient international connectivity. By combining multiple submarine systems with CSquared's terrestrial backbone, the company enables its customers to build more robust and fault-tolerant network architectures, supporting uninterrupted service delivery.
