The internet observatory Netblocks said, citing information from operators of various subsea cable failures, that a significant internet outage struck West and Central Africa on Thursday.
It wasn’t immediately apparent what was causing the cable failures.
According to Netblocks’s data, Ivory Coast suffered a severe outage, while Nigeria, Liberia, Benin, Ghana, and Burkina Faso were all severely impacted.
Major internet outages are still occurring in the Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, and Niger, according to a statement made by the internet company Cloudflare on one of its X accounts that tracks trends.
“There seems to be a pattern in the timing of the disruptions, impacting from the north to the south of Africa,” Cloudflare Radar reported.
Vodacom, a South African telecom operator, also attributed connectivity problems to underwater cable outages that affected the nation’s network providers.
