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The project combines water-supply infrastructure with climate-resilient water-resource management in Antanambao Manampotsy, Atsinanana Region, Madagascar. The concept includes cascading lakes and retention structures, water treatment and distribution systems, protection of community sources and improved monitoring. It is designed to serve approximately 71,910 residents and support public health, household water access, local livelihoods and agricultural production.

The project involves the construction of a submarine optical fiber cable across Lake Tanganyika, connecting Kigoma in Tanzania to Kalemie in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The cable is 186 km in length and will be deployed at lake depths reaching up to 1,470 meters. It will use G652D standard single-mode optical fiber with an initial capacity of 100 Gbps, expandable to several terabits per second using OTN over DWDM overlay technology. The primary component is the lake-bed cable, which will extend the existing Tanzania National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) into eastern DRC. The NICTBB, managed by Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (TTCL) on behalf of the Government of Tanzania, already spans approximately 7,910 km and connects Tanzania to six neighboring countries: Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. The project also includes establishing Points of Presence (PoPs) on both sides to facilitate interconnection and service delivery. The cable design incorporates specialized burial techniques and environmental safeguards to address seismic risks along the East African Rift. Joint environmental studies by TTCL and the Societe Congolaise des Postes et Telecommunications (SCPT) are being conducted to ensure compliance with the Ramsar Convention protecting Lake Tanganyika's biodiversity. This infrastructure is critical for digital integration within the East African Community (EAC) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), providing a direct, high-capacity link that bypasses challenging overland routes. The project is recognized under the AUDA-NEPAD 2nd PIDA Priority Action Plan (2021-2030) as a key link for digital integration in East and Southern Africa. The government of Tanzania constructed a National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) connecting all Regions in Tanzania and cross boarder connectivity to Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The NICTBB has a total length of 7,910Km. The aim of NICTBB is to provide connectivity to all neighboring countries. Now the government is planning to connect with DRC by construction of optical fiber cable. The ideal of connection is between Kigoma in Tanzania and Kalemie in DRC, where the submarine optical fiber cable will be constructed. To achieve direct cross border link across lake Tanganyika, it will requires understanding of lake Tanganyika's bottom terrain and hydrology, landscape of beach sides, assessment of risks for marine activity and analysis of environmental factors for an in-depth design. The process will need to involve desk study, preliminary system design, route survey then detailed system design, which will determine the requirements for its implementation and operation. However, for generic understanding of requirements, we have identified possible locations of cable landing points along the shores of lake Tanganyika. The direct water distances between the two points is approximate to 150km with 1,470m considered as possible maximum depth of lake Tanganyika. Therefore considering that the cable will need to be layed down at the bottom of the lake, about 200km of submarine OFC could be needed for laying between the two points.

The project is intended to establish a reliable maritime connection of more than 660 km between Praia and Dakar, with potential interfaces to other West African ports through the Praia-Dakar-Abidjan corridor. The service is intended to carry passengers and cargo and may use a combined container and RoPax operating model. The project includes market and traffic analysis, vessel and port-infrastructure requirements, environmental and social analysis, financial modelling, management and governance arrangements, procurement design and a sustainable operating model. The April 2015 Cabo Verde-Senegal memorandum and the later ECOWAS corridor framework provide the institutional basis. ECOWAS reported progress in completing financial and technical studies in 2024. In July 2025, stakeholders validated the financial and implementation strategy but also required ECOWAS to establish operational, infrastructure and technical preconditions, define management procedures, optimise cost estimates and prepare an appropriate procurement mechanism. A 2026 finance-specialist recruitment further confirms continuing structuring work. Announced expectations for operation by the end of 2026 are targets.

The Fomi project is a multipurpose dam proposed on the Niandan River in Guinea within the Upper Niger Basin. The approved project concept includes a reservoir of about 4,978 million cubic metres, a dam of approximately 50 metres, three generating units totalling around 90 MW, irrigated agriculture, fisheries, improved navigation and environmental-flow regulation. Guinea is the project member state, while benefits extend across the wider Niger Basin.

High-quality ducted fiber corridor linking Port Sudan undersea cable landings to inland Central African states, supporting broadband connectivity to Chad, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. The corridor positions Sudan as a digital gateway for landlocked Sahel countries, reducing satellite reliance particularly for humanitarian actors. Technical design specifies high-quality ducted fiber at 130-170 cm depth with multi-mode capacity and distributed open access points. Project implementation has been severely constrained by ongoing conflict in Sudan since 2023, though humanitarian telecommunications infrastructure has been activated at Port Sudan landing sites. The proposed project addresses enlargement of the regional ICT coverage by providing services for unconnected customers with satisfied and affordable quality and prices. Moreover crossing border cable will significantly contribute in injecting new communities and activities across its route as well as additive job opportunities.

The Juba-Nairobi Fiber Optic Link (PIDA Code I.02.30.06) is a 957 km high-capacity terrestrial fiber optic cable project connecting Eldoret, Kenya, to Juba, South Sudan, via the Nadapal border town. The Kenyan segment (approximately 700 km), which forms part of Kenya's National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI), is complete and operational. The South Sudan segment (approximately 257 km) represents the critical missing link. The project is a key component of the PIDA Priority Action Plan (PAP) 2 (2021-2030) under the ICT sector. It aims to provide South Sudan with its first direct, high-speed international internet gateway, reducing latency and costs by eliminating dependency on expensive satellite and microwave links. The project scope includes construction of the fiber cable, associated ducting, manholes, and repeater stations. In August 2023, Presidents William Ruto of Kenya and Salva Kiir of South Sudan signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish the fiber optic cable along the Eldoret-Juba road. In February 2024, Kenya's Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and South Sudan's counterpart Simon Mijok Mijak signed a further MoU separating border issues from connectivity to advance the project. In June 2025, at the 30th East African Communications Organization (EACO) Annual Assembly held in Juba, Kenya and South Sudan signed a bilateral cooperation agreement for a 2,420 km National Broadband Internet Backbone Initiative (NBIBI), extending Kenya's NOFBI into South Sudan, with support from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA). In August 2025, South Sudan's Ministry of ICT and Postal Services (MOICT&PS) announced that construction would begin in early 2026, with technical teams being recruited to conduct feasibility studies and environmental impact assessments prior to a groundbreaking ceremony. In October 2025, South Sudan's Telecommunications Under-Secretary Engineer Thomas Gatkuoth publicly confirmed the 2,400 km fiber optic cable project at a digital governance panel in Lusaka, Zambia. Construction of a high capacity Optic Fibre Cable (OFC) from Eldoret (Kenya) to Juba (South Sudan) through the Nadapal border town. Laying of the new Eastern Africa Regional Transport, Trade and Development Facilitation Program (EARTTDFP) FON (main cable). This cable is the main backbone link for internet connectivity to the Kenyan north-western region and to the wider South Sudan.

The project would improve the hydraulic capacity of the Chari River and design the infrastructure required to transfer water by gravity from the proposed Bria Dam toward the Chari and Lake Chad. The concept includes measures to reduce water losses in floodplains, address silting and maintain flows, while optimising possible hydropower and irrigation components and minimising adverse environmental and social effects.

The SADC Regional Carrier-Neutral Data Centre a strategic ICT infrastructure project under the PIDA Priority Action Plan 2 (PAP2) to develop a Tier III certified, carrier-neutral data centre to serve as the primary regional digital hub for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The facility is designed to host the SADC Regional Internet Exchange Point (IXP), ICANN Root Server Instances, and cloud services infrastructure. Tier III certification guarantees 99.982% uptime with a maximum of 1.6 hours (95 minutes) of downtime annually, N+1 fault tolerant systems, and 72-hour power protection. The project is structured as a public-private partnership (PPP) with an estimated total facility investment of USD 10 million. The project institution is the SADC Secretariat, SATA, and the hosting country. Beneficiary countries include all 16 SADC member states: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The Digital Investment Facility (DIF), an EU co-funded service, is conducting a comprehensive feasibility, market, and regulatory study to enhance the bankability of the project and facilitate investor engagement. As of late 2025, a competitive evaluation process is underway to select the host country for the SADC Regional IXP component, with Botswana (via BoFiNet and its newly launched Digital Delta Data Centre) and a Zimbabwean entity shortlisted in the final evaluation stage. A data center is a critical information infrastructure. It complements IXPs to rely less on international transit for Internet. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet has shown to a be an absolute prerequisite of modern living and a tool that can be used to protect people, save lives, to enable people to telecommute, students to keep up with their studies and for everyone to keep in touch with their families and friends. Most online content, tools and services used were hosted outside the region and this placed a lot of strain on the costly International Internet links. A data center is the digital heart of each public or private network providing access to data and services via the Internet.

The project involves the extension of the Tanzania National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) southwards to connect with Mozambique's national backbone via the Mtambaswala border crossing. The primary component is the construction of a 72-kilometre cross-border terrestrial fiber optic link along the Mangaka-Mtambaswala route in the Mtwara and Ruvuma regions of Tanzania, with transmission systems installed at Mtambaswala and Masasi stations. The project also includes construction of the fiber optic layout, power and transmission equipment, mechanical building, guard booth, and associated civil works. The technical specification includes the deployment of Single Mode Optical Fiber type G652D with OTN over DWDM transmission technology, operating at a capacity of up to 1.6 terabits per second. The project was contracted to M/s Raddy Fiber Solution in January 2021 at a cost of TSh 2.4 billion (approximately USD 1 million), funded by the Government of Tanzania. Construction commenced in March 2021 and the Tanzania-side infrastructure was delivered to the Mtambaswala border by 2023, with the link confirmed operational and Mozambique listed among Tanzania's six digitally interconnected neighbours by September 2024. The project aims to create a resilient, high-capacity digital corridor, enabling both countries to access multiple submarine cable systems (EASSy and SEACOM) landed in Tanzania and Mozambique, thereby providing redundancy and reducing international bandwidth costs. The project is a key component of the SADC Regional Infrastructure Development Master Plan and the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), code. Government of Tanzania constructed a National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) connecting all Regions in Tanzania and cross boarder connectivity to Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The NICTBB has a total length of 7,910Km. The aim of NICTBB is to connect all neighboring countries. Now the government is planning to connect Mozambique so that to enable access of submarine cables landed in both countries. This connect will increase the reliability of the sea cables in the SADC and EAC regions.

São Tomé and Príncipe has 12 automatic hydrometric stations that require maintenance, calibration, reliable communications and improved data management to operate effectively. The project will restore the network, provide satellite communication and field equipment, strengthen the legal and institutional framework for hydrology, improve staff capacity and data processing, and support community awareness and surveillance to reduce vandalism and improve flood and watershed monitoring.

The project will install renewable-energy-powered pumping systems on 15 pastoral wells in the western Jafara Plain. Solar and wind systems would enable sustainable groundwater abstraction for livestock watering, pasture development, vegetation restoration and the establishment or support of natural reserves along the Libya-Tunisia border area. The intervention is small-scale but combines water access, renewable energy, climate adaptation and land-restoration objectives.

The ECOWAS Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP) project aims to establish a public peering hub to localize internet traffic exchange among the 15 ECOWAS member states. The project involves setting up a regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP) where traffic between countries within the West Africa region can be exchanged by public peering, thereby avoiding routing through external transit hubs located outside the region. Key components include the interconnection of existing National IXPs (NIXPs) within ECOWAS member states to create a regional hub for digital services, and the strengthening or creation of national IXPs in member states where they do not yet exist (notably Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone, which as of 2023 had not yet established their own IXPs). The project is implemented by the ECOWAS Project Preparation and Development Unit (PPDU) and the ECOWAS Directorate for the Digital Economy and Postal Services, with feasibility study funding provided by the European Union. The African Internet Exchange System (AXIS) project of the African Union, which supports the establishment of at least one RIXP in each of Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs), provides the continental framework within which this initiative sits. The RIXP is a flagship enabler for several other ECOWAS digital economy initiatives, including affordable regional mobile roaming, the regional customs network (ALISA project), and the ECOWAS e-commerce strategy. The project is to set up a regional internet exchange point (RIXP) where traffic between countries within the West Africa region can be exchanged by public peering

The project comprises a dam at the Palambo Rapids on the Oubangui River and an associated hydroelectric plant serving Bangui and neighbouring areas of the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The dam would regulate downstream flows, particularly during the low-water season, while supporting electricity generation and safer, more reliable navigation between Bangui, Brazzaville and Kinshasa. The project is also linked conceptually to the Oubangui-to-Lake-Chad water-transfer initiative.

The project supports operationalisation of the Single African Air Transport Market by addressing the infrastructure and airspace-management constraints that limit safe, efficient and competitive air transport. It covers both physical aviation infrastructure, including airports and air-navigation systems, and the institutional and technical architecture required for a seamless African airspace. The master plan is expected to consolidate national and regional plans, forecast traffic and capacity needs, identify infrastructure gaps, prioritise investments and develop an implementation roadmap. The seamless airspace component is intended to promote harmonised procedures, performance-based navigation, flexible routes, common surveillance-code arrangements and interoperable CNS/ATM systems. The African Union Commission and AFCAC are the principal continental institutions, working with ICAO, regional economic communities, air-navigation service providers, civil-aviation authorities and industry stakeholders. All African Union member states are beneficiaries. A continent-wide aviation infrastructure gap analysis was completed and validated in 2023. Official ICAO and AFCAC reporting in 2024-2026 indicates that its results are being used to refine the air-navigation master strategy and identify bankable national and regional projects. The 2026 AU Assembly still called for mobilisation of financing for development of the Continental Aviation Infrastructure Master Plan.

The project is a coordinated feasibility, technical-study and action-programme package for Lake Chad and its principal tributaries. It addresses poorly quantified sedimentation and siltation, invasive aquatic vegetation, unequal water distribution between the northern and southern basins, degraded navigation and declining economic activity. The planned work includes bathymetric surveys, physical and chemical analysis of sediments and water, design of dredging and de-silting interventions, navigation and landing facilities, and restoration measures for fisheries and irrigated agriculture.

The project concept is for a dedicated petroleum jetty and associated storage facilities at Albion, potentially supporting large-tanker berthing, petroleum imports, storage, bunkering and regional trading functions. The project must be distinguished from the existing Mauritius Ports Authority oil jetty at Mer Rouge, Port Louis. Operating statistics, dimensions, throughput or investments relating to Port Louis cannot be applied to Albion unless an official scope decision confirms relocation or integration. No current official decision, land confirmation, procurement, financial close or construction evidence was identified for Albion. The project remains active in the portfolio, but the current reportable stage is S1 pending owner confirmation of whether the proposal remains active, has been relocated or has been superseded.

The project will increase capacity and safety through construction of second carriageways on the RN06 corridor between Mascara and Bechar and the RN50 corridor from Bechar towards the Algeria-Mauritania border. The approved scope totals approximately 2,200 km across the two principal sections. The programme is intended to improve north-south and cross-border connectivity, support trade with Mauritania and West Africa, reduce travel times and accidents and improve access to southern Algerian regions and border facilities. The original financial field indicates an average unit rate of DZD 300 million per kilometre. It does not provide a source USD total, valuation date or confirmed length to which the rate should be applied as a single contract package. Official evidence shows phased implementation of the wider corridor, including the Algeria-Mauritania road initiative, while some RN06 packages remain in study or preparation. The portfolio stage is S4B because construction is occurring within the approved umbrella scope.

The project aims to establish reliable maritime links among the principal Comoros islands, particularly Moroni on Grande Comore, Fomboni on Mohéli and Mutsamudu on Anjouan. The wider implementation concept includes port rehabilitation and resilience, navigation and safety systems, vessels or service arrangements and improved movement of passengers and cargo. The project submission was a preparation-stage concept and identified USD 2 million for feasibility studies and designs. The database had previously mixed unsupported physical and financial values. The World Bank inter-island connectivity operation and the AfDB maritime-corridor programme provide strong evidence that related port and maritime-safety components have moved into financed implementation. The project is therefore coded at S4A for 2025-2026. This recognises financed implementation and procurement preparation while avoiding an unsupported S4B construction claim. Country-table changes are excluded because the database does not yet distinguish Comoros as the project state from other beneficiary or regional entries.

The programme is intended to identify, rehabilitate and create cross-border centres as multiservice logistics zones along the Trans-Maghreb corridor. Potential functions include freight consolidation, warehousing, customs and border processing, parking, maintenance, driver services, information systems and links to ports, roads and railways. The programme covers the five Arab Maghreb Union countries: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. It is a regional logistics and trade-facilitation programme rather than one physical asset at a single site. Current regional corridor studies may identify logistics needs, but national border-zone or logistics investments cannot automatically be treated as implementation of this exact programme.