US-Backed Week of African Fibre, Cable and Data-Centre Deals Tops R4.54 Billion

A cluster of US-backed fibre, subsea cable, and data-centre transactions totalling more than R4.54 billion has been recorded in a single week, raising questions about who is financing Africa's digital infrastructure build-out and on what terms. The concentration of deals signals accelerating US-linked capital deployment into the continent's connectivity stack.