The Democratic Republic of the Congo has partnered with China's Genew Technologies to build a fiber-optic route along the Congo River worth US$1. pics)The project consists in the construction of 10,000 km of fibre-optic cables as part of a regional backbone in 5 countries, including backbone as well as metro networks. On June 25, 2026, the government, through the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Affairs, signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Genew. SOCOF is a one-person limited company in which the Congolese State is the sole shareholder. It is governed by the Uniform Act revised on January 30, 2014 relating to the law of Commercial Companies and Economic Interest Grouping and by all other laws and regulations in force in the DRC, not.
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