The trans-Saharan fiber optic backbone project is funded to the tune of 79 million euros by the African Development Bank and the European Union. The implementation of the project was supposed to last four years and make it possible to interconnect Chad to

The Trans-Sahara Fibre-Optic Backbone project will consist of installing a 1,510 kilometer fiber-optic line to interconnect Niger, Algeria, Tunisia, Nigeria and Chad. The cost amounts to 20.5 billion CFA francs (33.9 million USD) and the project is financed by the Union européenne et la African Development Bank (AfDB). The work was awarded to CGPS/LORYNE grouping consisting of two Burkinabe companies specialized in telecommunications,