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On 14 March 2024, network operators reported that four submarine cables had been damaged off the coast of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. These were the ACE, Main One, SAT-3 and WACS submarine cables, which run from South Africa and Nigeria to Europe and supply the bulk of Internet connectivity to West Africa. The breaks to these cables resulted in nationwide Internet outages in twelve countries across the region, with capacity incrementally returning as Internet traffic was restored via other cable systems until these damaged four cables can be repaired during April. “On Thursday, March 14, 2024, at 7:43 GMT, we experienced a fault on the MainOne network,” confirmed Main One in a press release. “Preliminary findings and further investigations revealed that the fault occurred most probably due to environmental factors such as landslides and earthquakes, that resulted in a cut on our submarine cable system, in the Atlantic Ocean, offshore Cote D’Ivoire, along the coast of West Africa.... Read More →