The internet just went dark over Africa.

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The cause of the cable failures on Thursday was not immediately clear.

The African subsea cable operator Seacom confirmed that services on its west African cable system were down and that customers who relied on that cable were being redirected to the Google Equiano cable, which Seacom uses.

“The redirection happens automatically when a route is impacted,” it said by email.

Network disruptions caused by cable damage have occurred in Africa in recent years. However, today’s disruption “points to something larger [and] this is amongst the most severe,” said Isik Mater, director of research at NetBlocks, a group that documents internet disruptions around the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/14/much-of-west-and-central-africa-without-internet-after-undersea-cable-failures

https://twitter.com/MarinergyKenya/status/1768393620766220512



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