By Business In Cameroon
In the government daily publication of July 4, 2014, the Managing Director of Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel), David Nkotto Emane, announced that “negotiations are quite advanced to make Cameroon the first African country to have a submarine cable connection to South America.” The managing director revealed that the Cameroonian government is currently working “to have a 5,900 km fibre-optic cable lain between Kribi (in the South) and Fortaleza in Brazil.”