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...major media campaign featuring prominent Kurdish entertainers. Observers are waiting to see if the dominant parties get enough votes to retain control of parliament and the KRG presidency; and, if not, whether they will transfer control. The outcome could well decide how much of an exemplar to the Middle East the Kurds will continue...
...weeks, it had been impossible to ignore the quiet revolution coming to East Africa. Across Nairobi, work crews could be seen unspooling thousands of meters of black cable into freshly dug trenches along the city's roads. The flurry of work was all done in anticipation of what was heralded as the dawn of a new era: At long last, East Africa would be connected to an undersea fiber-optic Internet cable, and with it, to the planet's cheap, high-speed information superhighway...
...Thursday, after many delays, it finally happened. Officials announced they had flipped the switch on a cable that gets its name from the Mauritius-based telecoms company that owns it, SEACOM. The 10,560-mile (17,000-km) line running from Europe and India down the East African coast can deliver 1.28 terabits of data per second, good enough for streaming video, Internet phone calls, gargantuan downloads and all the other services people have so long done without in these parts. (See photos of struggle and triumph in Africa...
With the arrival of SEACOM, which cost some $600 million, East Africa will no longer be dogged by the rather ignominious distinction of being the last place on Earth without access to a high-speed submarine fiber-optic cable. Until now, it has had to rely on vastly more expensive - and less dependable - satellite connections for Internet and international phone service. (Read: "Kenya's Mobile Gold Mine...
After famine, now comes the flood. SEACOM is the first of three fiber-optic cables that will connect East Africa, via the Kenyan port of Mombasa, to the rest of the world. Analysts say that could lead to a more than 90% reduction in the cost of Internet access in years to come. The high price of using the Internet has up until now crippled the region's nascent tech sector, denying jobs to millions of well-educated young Africans. (Read: "Kenya's Blackboard Jungle...