[afrique en ligne] The Libyan Communications Network, Green, and the Chadian communications company Monday signed a partnership agreement in N'Djamena, the Chadian capital, PANA reported. Under the agreement, Green will buy 60 per cent of the shares of the Chadian society estimated at US$ 90 million.
The Green network, which was established in 2007, is one of the subsidiaries of the Libya-Africa Portfolio for Investment now operating in eight African countries -- Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Togo and Niger and Chad.
Green has over five million subscribers in eight countries, according to a source close to the network and it offers its users in African countries, advanced communication technologies such as fixed and mobile telephony, as well as Internet.
It has all the competitive ability to connect the African continent through modern means of communication, with adequate rates, using advanced technological support.
The Libyan network aims to create a unified communications network on the African continent, which will run from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean.
The agreement followed the Mouammar Kadhafi's visit to Chad on Saturday where he attended the eighth Global Forum on Sustainable Development, under the theme 'Protecting Lake Chad', as well as the 13th conference of the Lake Chad Basin Commi s sion alongside Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan, Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, Francois Bozize of the Central African Republic and heads of delegations of Niger and Cameroon.
The N'djamena meetings recommended the inclusion of Lake Chad in the World Heritage of Humanity and decided to hold Annual Conference of the Lake Chad Basin Commission. The next meeting will be held in Libya in 2011.
Participants at the N'djamena meetings have requested further feasibility studies for the diversion of water flows to the Lake in a bid to feed it.
Libya, Chad sign telecommunications agreement
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