2Africa, the subsea internet cable project backed by a consortium led by Meta, is racing to go live this year as planned. Since making its first landing in Genoa, Italy in April 2022, the 45,000km cable has completed landings in Angola, Egypt and Kenya. But only in 11 out of 32 countries of the project’s span across Africa, Europe and the Middle East have cable landings been completed. Multiple landings have been completed in South Africa but work remains in progress, according to a map tracker of the project published by the consortium, and there will reportedly be two landings in Nigeria before the end of the year. The Meta-backed fiber optic cable project is one of two such undertakings by a big American company in Africa, the other being Google’s Equiano cable.