A ship is preparing to set sail from France to lay the next section of the largest ever sub-sea internet cable.

The 2Africa cable is an incredible 45,000 km long and stretches around the entire continent.

But even as the world celebrates ambitious projects like getting more people online, internet freedom is on the decline around the world.

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