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# Major internet outage experienced in West and Central Africa
- URL: https://www.techloy.com/major-internet-outage-experienced-in-west-and-central-africa/
- Published: 2024-03-14T16:15:58.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-15T16:25:55.000Z
- Description: Several telecom operators are experiencing multiple subsea cable failures.
- Author: Techloy
- Tags: / News, Broadband, Tech in Africa, Internet

Several telecom operators are experiencing multiple subsea cable failures, resulting in a major internet outage that affected countries in West and Central Africa on Thursday.

Internet observatory website Netblocks [says](https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1768234033098444882) "the incident affects networks supplying telecoms via subsea cables to multiple countries and operators."

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The countries affected include Nigeria, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Niger Republic, according to Internet firm Cloudflare in a [post](https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1768245392334852286?s=19) on the X.

Although details of the cause of the cable failures are sketchy, African subsea cable operator SEACOM confirmed to *Reuters* that services on its West African Cable System were down and that customers who relied on that cable were redirected to the Google Equiano cable, which SEACOM also uses.