The World Bank has approved financing worth 164.5 million dollars for Kenya, Burundi and Madagascar for high-speed Internet connections, the bank said on April 3. The region is the only place in the world not connected to the global broadband infrastructure, making telephone calls and Internet access very expensive, the bank said.
The three countries are part of a wider regional initiative by over 20 nations to lay an undersea fibre-optic cable linking South Africa and Sudan.