West Africa’s $150bn Digital Economy Faces Connectivity Crisis
West Africa’s $150 billion digital economy rests upon a dangerously brittle foundation. Aliyu Aboki, executive secretary of the West African Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA), warns that inadequate submarine cable resilience now threatens the region’s primary growth engine. The 2024 mass cable failure, which slashed bandwidth across the region, proved that sheer capacity means little without…