22/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - Loan for high speed submarine link to Mauritania. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced it will be financing the first fibre optic cable connecting Mauritania to Europe and West Africa. The financing agreement was signed on Monday 20 December by Tamsyn Barton, Director General of the EIB's Directorate for Operations outside the European Union, and Sidi Ould Tah, Minister of Economic Affairs and Development of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. Lazard...