Congo fiber optic plans advance: DR Congo signed an MoU with China's Genew for a $1.5 billion, 2,100 km cable corridor along the Congo River to Kisangani.
DR CONGO · TECHNOLOGY
Key Facts
—The plan: DR Congo signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s Genew Technologies on June 25, 2026 for a fiber-optic corridor along the Congo River.
—The route: Roughly 2,100 km of infrastructure: about 1,700 km of cable following the river from Muanda on the Atlantic to Kisangani, plus some 400 km of land links.
—The price: Genew chief executive Wu Minhua puts the overall cost at about 1.5 billion dollars, with more than 400 million needed for phase one.
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