West Africa’s digital economy, valued at up to $150 billion annually, faces growing risk as weak submarine cable resilience threatens the region’s connectivity backbone.
This is even as Aliyu Aboki, executive secretary of the West African Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA), warning
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Royal Ibeh
Royal Ibeh is a senior journalist with years of experience reporting on Nigeria’s technology and health sectors. She currently covers the Technology and Health beats for BusinessDay newspaper, where she writes in-depth stories on digital innovation, telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and public health policies.
