Internet Outage in West and Central Africa After Undersea Cable Failures

• Much of west and central Africa left without internet due to undersea cable failures • Cause of cable failures on Thursday not immediately clear • African cable operator Seacom confirmed services down, redirecting customers to Google Equiano cable • Outage among most severe, disrupting data transmission & measurement at cable landing points • At least 12 countries affected, with worst impacts in Ivory Coast where disruption was severe