Linking Africa with cables: resource extraction, impact on marine and coastal ecosystems, & climate footprint – a free-for-all? Africa’s digitalisation is being built through the same extractive routes that shaped the continent’s colonial past. Subsea cables – 1.5 million km of them – now ferry 99% of global data traffic while driving new waves of mineral extraction, seabed disturbance, coastal erosion, and pressure on small-scale fishers. Behin…
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