Mpeefu, Uganda

Mpeefu, Uganda is one of the most connected submarine cable landing points in Uganda. One international cable system comes ashore here, and together they reach 1 other countries.

Why cable lands at Mpeefu

Most of the 1 systems here are domestic; the exception reaches Congo - Kinshasa, making Mpeefu a stepping stone that carries the region's traffic off Uganda's national grid toward the wider network.

Where its cables reach

• Lake Albert 2 connects it to Africa (Congo - Kinshasa).

The systems in detail

Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Lake Albert 2 (44 km and in service since 2020). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.

What the concentration means for resilience

A single system lands here, so this point is a genuine dependency rather than a redundant one. The exposure is specific: the link to Africa rests on a single cable, with no sibling landing alongside it. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.

What our monitoring has recorded

GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 130 route anomalies across 73 cable systems worldwide. None of the systems landing here has triggered a route anomaly in that window, a stability signal in its own right for a hub of this size. This section updates automatically the moment that changes, as it already has for the 73 other systems flagged across our coverage.

Who depends on it

The largest access networks in Uganda sit behind this coastal capacity: MTN Uganda (51.7% of users), Airtel Uganda Limited (38.6% of users), Savanna Fibre Limited (6.7% of users) and Tangerine Limited (6.3% of users). See the full national picture for Uganda.

The coast around Mpeefu

This landing point is part of a wider shoreline of connectivity. Within roughly 200 kilometres, the coast also hosts Nkusi (2 km away, 1 cable system), Kasenyi (40 km away, 1 cable system) and Tchoima (42 km away, 1 cable system). Each of these sites brings its own cables ashore, and together they define how much independent capacity, and how much redundancy, this stretch of Uganda really has: if one landing fails or a cable needs maintenance, traffic can often be carried through a neighbour.

In short, Mpeefu, Uganda carries international traffic for Uganda across 1 independent cable system reaching 1 country on 1 continent, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.