Liberia Partners with ECOWAS and World Bank to Launch Second Submarine Cable Project

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Liberia has announced a strategical collaboration with the ECOWAS  Commission for Infrastructure, Energy, and Digitalization, specifically its Project Preparation and Development Unit (PPDU), and the World Bank  to beforehand the deployment of a Second Submarine Cable. The task aims to importantly amended integer infrastructure and connectivity successful Liberia and 4 different West African nations.

As portion of the initiative, ECOWAS has engaged TACTIS, a starring consultancy successful telecommunications and fibre optics, to transportation retired a broad feasibility study. The TACTIS squad has arrived successful Liberia and volition behaviour consultations and tract visits from July 14 to July 18, 2025. The appraisal volition impact discussions with cardinal ICT assemblage stakeholders and an on-site valuation successful Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, wherever the cablegram is expected to land.

The Second Submarine Cable Project is targeted astatine strengthening integer resilience and expanding net entree crossed Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Currently, these nations trust heavy connected the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable. The caller cablegram volition supply captious redundancy, ensuring uninterrupted, high-quality net services.

This improvement marks a important milestone successful Liberia’s integer translation agenda. The Ministry emphasized that the caller infrastructure volition enactment nationalist efforts to make a robust integer economy, thrust socio-economic growth, and guarantee inclusive entree to integer services for citizens.

With this partnership, Liberia is positioning itself astatine the forefront of West Africa’s integer connectivity revolution.