Paratus Group has officially unveiled its 2,000-kilometre Goma-to-Mombasa (G2M) fibre corridor, marking a significant leap in cross-border connectivity for East and Central Africa.
Delivered in partnership with ROKE TELKOM, the overland route establishes a high-capacity, protected digital highway linking Mombasa’s coastal landing stations directly to Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The G2M network traverses major commercial hubs including Nairobi, Kampala and Kigali, interconnecting with carrier-neutral data centres in each city to guarantee low-latency, high-availability traffic flows.
By creating a resilient terrestrial alternative to traditional coastal-only routes, Paratus is strengthening redundancy for wholesale carriers, internet service providers and enterprise clients seeking direct access to global subsea cable capacity at the Kenyan coast.
The activation of the Ugandan node underscores ROKE TELKOM’s strategic role in anchoring the corridor within a critical inland market. Its sister company, Roke Cloud—collocated at Raxio Uganda—provides carrier-neutral, cloud-ready infrastructure designed to ensure uptime, flexibility and seamless interconnection between fibre networks, data centres and cloud platforms.
Meanwhile, Roke Investments’ participation as a joint venture partner enhances Paratus Uganda’s local footprint and credibility, positioning the country as a central node in the group’s continental expansion strategy.
Peter Muhumuza, Chief Technical Officer at ROKE TELKOM, noted that deploying fibre alone does not deliver full value. He emphasized that integrating fibre routes into strategically located, neutral data centre environments is what enables enterprises to build resilience, adopt cloud services efficiently and retain data locally in secure conditions.
Martin Cox, Chief Commercial Officer at Paratus, described the G2M launch as more than an additional cable system, calling it a transformative digital artery providing operators and enterprises with dependable access to international capacity.
For Uganda, a landlocked market historically burdened by high connectivity costs, infrastructure bottlenecks and persistent digital divides, the new corridor offers enhanced redundancy and competitive access to global networks.
Now live and carrying traffic, the G2M route strengthens the digital backbone of a region projected to account for nearly a third of Africa’s GDP by 2040, supporting trade, fintech growth and cross-border economic integration.