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East Africa-Gulf Data Corridor: The Backbone Reshaping Africa’s Internet

UphivaBETAR
April 3, 2026

For three weeks in May 2024, internet performance across seven East African countries collapsed. The anchor-drag outage revealed who actually owns the infrastructure on which East Africa’s digital economy runs. The answer, increasingly, includes the Gulf.

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