Ivory Coast: Fibre-optic link makes progress

A $210 million (R2 billion) project to lay fibre-optic network across Ivory Coast should allow the country to connect up to 30 percent of its population to broadband internet within five years, boosting economic growth, Technology, Information and Communication Minister Bruno Nabagne Kone said at the weekend. Chinese telecoms firm Huawei began work last year on the first stage of the 6 700km network, a 1 400km cable in the west of the country, which Kone said would be completed before the end of the year. – Reuters