Driven by the need to bring this region into the global optic fiber networks, a group of telecommunication entities from the Eastern African Region have banded together to bridge the last remaining coast of Africa to the digital world. Telecommunications companies from South Africa , Mozambique , Madagascar , Tanzania , Kenya , Uganda , Burundi , Rwanda , Botswana , Somalia , Sudan , Mauritius , Zambia , Comores Islands and Djibouti are driving the project. Other countries in the region are expected to participate in the EASSy Project.