Africa Internet Outage Risks Leaving Millions Offline for Weeks
- Repair vessel will be dispatched to restore undersea cables
- Four ocean cables off west coast of Africa were cut Thursday
Eight West African countries were suffering a second day of major connectivity issues on Friday with users in South Africa also affected.
Photographer: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty ImagesDisruption to internet services for millions of users in Africa could take weeks or even months to fix, following damage to undersea cables off the continent’s west coast.
Eight West African countries were suffering a second day of major connectivity issues on Friday with users in South Africa also affected, after damage to four sub-sea cables. The cause of the cable cutting was still not known, though a shifting of the seabed was among the likely possibilities.