all except south sudan who does not have crossborder fiber connectivity to its neighbors have at least one crossborder route for access to submarine cables guineabissau recently signed an agreement with the world bank to obtain access to the africa coast to europe ace cable a project that should be completed by early although eritrea had opportunities to connect to submarine cables on the east coast of africa it declined and is the only coastal ldcs without a landing station in may a project providing a us million world bank grant for kiribati to establish submarine connectivity was approved a project to connect solomon islands to submarine cable was approved several years ago but delayed