Banjul, 06th March 2025: Experts from the ECOWAS Commission of the ECOWAS Member States involved in the Amilcar Cabral Submarine Cable project; namely Cabo Verde, Guinea, Liberia, Guinea- Bissau, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the PPDU and their technical and financial partners recently met in Banjul to analyse the Amilcar Cabral submarine cable project consortium’s Memorandum of Understanding and to validate the report of the study of the first phase of the project.
The aim of the project is to increase international broadband capacity in the beneficiary countries and guarantee redundancy with a single connection to several international submarine cables.
The meeting was opened on February 26, 2025 by Mr. Hassan Gaye, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy of the Republic of The Gambia, in the presence of Ms. Violetta Insa, Consul General of the Kingdom of Spain in The Gambia, and Mr. Kebba Fye, Acting Director of the PPDU, representing Mr. Douka Sediko,ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization.
The current Member States of ECOWAS are Benin, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sénégal and Togo.
As part of this renewal process, ECOWAS is implementing critical and strategic programmes that will deepen cohesion and progressively eliminate identified barriers to full integration. In this way, the estimated 300 million citizens of the community can ultimately take ownership for the realization of the new vision of moving from an ECOWAS of States to an “ECOWAS of the People: Peace and Prosperity to All”. by 2050.
By: Lamim B. Darboe
ECOWAS Expert Committee Meet in Banjul to Analyses Amilcar Cabral Submarine Cable Project
