Safaricom Expands Infrastructure as Kenya Investigates Data Leak and DDoS Attacks - October 2025

Meta has partnered with Safaricom to make the Kenyan telecommunications company the landing partner for a new submarine cable connecting Kenya and Oman. This is Meta’s second significant undersea cable investment in Kenya. At the same time, Safaricom has expanded the retail availability of its 5G home internet routers, now selling them for KES 2,999 in all Naivas supermarkets. Amid this expansion, Kenya is facing cybersecurity challenges, leading East Africa in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks with 46,786 reported in H1 2025, according to a NETSCOUT report. These attacks primarily targeted the telecommunications industry. Furthermore, Kenya’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) confirmed an active investigation into an alleged data breach of the M-Tiba platform, reportedly involving sensitive data of up to 4.8 million Kenyans.