East Africa: Fibre cable project enters final lap with critics on all sides

NEPAD and the EASSy consortium have thus far worked extremely closely together, something acknowledged by both parties. But the consortium did not really expect to find themselves in a position where what they see as their project was in effect taken away. The parting of ways has come over proposals developed by NEPAD and the insistence that the cable should be built in such a way that it avoided the high-price inducing monopoly found on the West African SAT3 cable.