As I understand it, it's not limited locally. Africa’s Continental Internet Exchange (CIX) connects Africa internally first, but it still links globally. It’s about sovereignty, not isolation.

In terms of networking, this is not different from Europe and other regions with many local IXPs that allow regional traffic within the continent.. the thing is that in the past, Africa has not had an infrastructure that allowed connecting to another African country without it being routed through international networks outside the continent.

Like you said, the headline is overhyped a bit.

But still exciting because it’s a very important first step. Data colonization is being stopped. Nothing could be done until then.

It also puts hard limits on the expansion of the tech bro billionaires