Nairobi, Aug. 5 -- Kenya is set to add two new undersea fibre optic cables before 2027 in Africa's race for more bandwidth and high-speed internet amid the AI push.

The first is a 4,108-kilometre subsea fibre-optic cable running from Oman to Mombasa under a partnership between US tech giant Facebook and Safaricom, according to TeleGeography, a telecom research and analysis consultancy.

The consultancy also expects Africa-1, a 10,000 km long international submarine cable from France to the Middle East, through Africa, to land in Kenya next year.

Undersea cables, also known as submarine communications cables, are laid on the ocean floor and used to transmit data between continents.

These cables are the backbone of the global internet, c...