On May 11th, 2012, the 14,000km long West Africa Cable System (WACS) went live in Cape Town, South Africa.

Links to 120 African ICT stories from 29+ nations during the second half of April 2012.

Chad is now connected to the SAT-3 cable via Cameroon as part of the Central African Backbone project. DRC faces public-private challenges.

Sierra Leone’s transparency portal, SA targets corruption using new media, mobile begins to negatively impact Internet cafe business, ACE cable brings hope to Liberia, start-ups urged in Zimbabwe, Egyptian protests one year later, terrorists use the Internet in Algeria and Nigeria

Zambian ICT action, Zanu PF fights online criticism, iPhone 4S for South Africa, SMS ban in DRC, Rwanda spends two days discussing ICT future, fibre backbone makes progress in Central Africa, and more.

Over the next nine months, sixteen additional African nations will hold democratic elections, but how much information will be exchanged using the Internet?