Country profile: Burkina Faso

This is a result of recent investment in infrastructure bearing fruit, notably Djoliba, a 10,000 km terrestrial network connecting the capitals of Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal.

A Burkinabé connectivity strategy was launched in 2021 to deliver fibre connectivity to all administrative buildings, companies and universities by 2030, and also deliver a further, internal 200km fibre backbone network which started operations in 2023. The country’s government gave an update to the strategy in early 2025, with two data centres nearing completion and the extension of a plan to extend coverage to 500 more areas of the country that are currently underserved.

However, armed conflict in the country is a severe limiting factor for future development. Orange Burkina Faso, which operates around a sixth of the country’s 2,700 tower sites, is unable to access around 15% of them due to security concerns.

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