The Paratus Group Goma to Mombasa fiber highway goes live

• A 2,000km protected route connects Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC, unlocking faster, resilient cross-border connectivity for businesses and transporters.
• The new route complements Paratus Group’s wider East-West fiber backbone, which extends from Maputo to Swakopmund and is connected to the Equiano submarine cable, ensuring low-latency, high-capacity redundancy between Africa and Europe.
• With a population of more than 200 million people and one of the fastest growing regional economies on the continent, East Africa is experiencing rapid expansion in sectors such as fintech, manufacturing, mining, energy, agriculture and ICT.

Pan-African telecommunications and network services provider Paratus Group today launched a major new fiber optic route in East Africa, directly connecting Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) via a protected terrestrial network.

The newly activated 2000 km G2M fiber optic route (Goma-to-Mombasa) runs via Kigali (Rwanda), Kampala (Uganda) and Nairobi (Kenya), with direct connections to key data centers in each city. The route is now live and already carrying traffic for the first wholesale customers, providing resilient, high-capacity connectivity specifically designed for carriers, ISPs and enterprise customers operating across borders.

The launch significantly strengthens Paratus Group’s East African footprint, creating a continuous, fully integrated regional network that directly connects domestic markets to global onshore submarine cable capacity. In partnership with ROKE TELKOM in Uganda and MoveOn Telecoms in Kenya, Paratus is fully licensed in all East African countries through its subsidiaries, Paratus Rwanda, Paratus Uganda and Paratus Kenya. The new G2M route complements Paratus LEO’s footprint in Goma, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya.

Paratus Groups increases access to international networks

For businesses and service providers in eastern DRC and neighboring countries, this means faster access to international networks, improved reliability and lower latency, opening the region to greater digital participation and growth.

The new route complements Paratus Group’s wider east-west fiber backbone, which extends from Maputo to Swakopmund and is connected to the Equiano submarine cable, ensuring low-latency, high-capacity redundancy between Africa and Europe. Together, the networks position Paratus as one of the few operators offering seamless, cross-continental and regional connectivity through a single provider.

Martin Cox, commercial director of Ready groupsays the G2M pathway is a crucial step in enabling East Africa’s digital economy.

“This is much more than another fiber optic connection – it is a new digital highway for the region,” says Cox. “By creating a protected route from the coast to Goma, we are giving operators and enterprises direct, reliable access to global capacity. It will dramatically improve resilience and performance, while opening new commercial opportunities in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC.”

“Our strategy has always been about connecting the dots across Africa with high-quality, contiguous infrastructure. The G2M route strengthens everything we have already built in East Africa and makes Paratus the natural connectivity partner for companies operating across borders.”

East Africa: fastest growing regional economies

With a population of more than 200 million people and one of the fastest growing regional economies on the continent, East Africa is experiencing rapid expansion in sectors such as fintech, manufacturing, mining, energy, agriculture and ICT. The demand for secure connectivity, cloud and managed services at the enterprise level is increasing accordingly.

Through its suite of solutions – including dedicated internet access, cloud, data center services, managed networks and cybersecurity – Paratus provides the digital foundation to support this growth and enable commerce and transformation across the region.

As Cox concludes: “Digital infrastructure today is as important as traditional trade routes were in the past. We are building the networks that make modern trade possible – and this new route is an important part of that future.”

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