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- Liberia’s president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has opened the terminal in Monrovia that houses the country’s connection to the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) undersea cable system, which connects 23 countries between France and South Africa. Liberia’s link to the 17,000km cable will be operational from October this year. ‘When this becomes operational Liberians will have easy access to information in the world and this will enable them to easily disseminate information to the outside world,’ President Sirleaf commented, according to a report from AFP.

Starting from May this year, Institutions of higher learning, vocational training centres, state schools as well as health centres will enjoy free Internet access. This information was made available by the The Minister of Information and Communication Technology (MITC), Joël Kaapanda. He revealed that government has spent US$37.5 million, which equals approximately N$300 million, to make the service available.

The telephone line and the and the wireless technology for the project has been made available by the Telecom Namibia.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, gave further clarification on its roadmap for broadband delivery for Nigeria as Dr Eugene Juwah, the Commission's Executive Vice-Chairman said in Lagos that to enable service delivery at affordable prices for the end-user, where it may not be economically viable to do so, the Commission will offer financial incentives to the infrastructure providers to enable them operate reasonably profitably.

AfriNIC-16, the African Network Information Centre’s (AfriNIC) 16th bi-annual meeting together with AfNOG (The African Network Operators Group) will take place in Serekunda, The Gambia from the 6th – 18th May 2012. This year our Public Policy Meeting will host among others the first African Internet Summit and the sixth meeting of the African Government Working Group (AfGWG).

The landing of the fiber optic submarine cable to Seychelles from Tanzania’s capital city of Dar es Salaam was launched on Saturday afternoon with a laying of the first inch of the long cable to the Seychelles capital of Victoria.

A brief ceremony to lay the first inch of the almost 2,000-kilometer-long cable that will run underwater to connect the two countries was organized in Dar es Salaam in the presence of the Seychelles Minister for Natural Resources and Industry, Peter Sinon, and the Island’s Honorary Consul to Tanzania Ms. Maryvonne Pool.

Sam Bikassam, CEO of Togo Telecom has given details of the arrival, as expected by users, of high speed bandwidth delivered by the new WACS cable. It will be for the month of June, said Bikassam. The fiber optic cable that will provide unparalleled data rates will be commissioned in South Africa on May 10.

The cable WACS (West Africa Cable System) is a consortium of several African operators including Togo Telecom, Angola Telecom, Broadband Ifraco, Cable & Wireless, MTN, Portugal Telecom, Sotelco, Tata Communications, Telecom Namibia, Telkom and Vodacom. It connects

The National Liberation Front Party (FLN) announced on Thursday that its Secretary General Abdellaziz Belkhadem would reply on Sunday to the Internet users' questions and queries on Facebook as part of the ongoing campaign for the May 10th legislative polls in Algeria.

The announcement was made on the FLN party's Website indicating that Mr Abdellaziz Belkhadem would provide answers to the questions between 19h and 20h local time or 18h and 19h GMT.

The Niger Telecommunications Company announced the reinstatement of its broadband Internet services, after three months of load shedding due to a failure on a separate line of fiber optics in neighboring Benin. This a breakdown that reinforces the need for countries to have multiple fibre connections for redundancy purposes.

The TEAMS cable company has sued the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) and a shipping firm for the recent cable cut at Mombasa that caused disruption in Internet services.

“We will sue it (KPA) again as soon as we establish the cause of the cut, we have already sued it for $15 million in the earlier case of which they have deposited $2.5 million with the court,” said Bitange Ndemo, PS in the Ministry of Information and Communication as he spoke to the Business Daily.