Undersea Cable Damage Causes Internet Outages Across Africa
- At least four west coast telecommunications cables are offline
- This outage follows cable disruptions in Red Sea last month
Damage to four subsea cables off the west coast of Africa is disrupting internet services across the continent.
The West Africa Cable System, MainOne, South Atlantic 3 and ACE sea cables — arteries for telecommunications data — were all affected on Thursday and early Friday, triggering outages and connectivity issues for a second day for mobile operators and internet service providers, according to data from internet-analysis firms including NetBlocks, Kentik and Cloudflare. The cause of the cable faults has not yet been determined.