A damage to the SAT-3, West Africa Cable System (WACS), the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE), MainOne, and other undersea cables along the West Coast of Africa on Thursday impacted Internet connectivity in Nigeria, Ghana and several other countries across the continent, the outage started around 12:30 on Thursday, 14 March 2024.
Telecommunications customers and banking clients faced a lengthy inconvenience due to the disturbance that caused a halt in online transactions and internet connectivity.
Internet monitoring firm, NetBlocks confirmed this, saying:
“Live network data show a major disruption to Internet connectivity in and around West and Central Africa.
“The incident affects networks supplying telecoms via subsea cables to multiple countries and operators.”
According to NetBlocks, the impact in Nigeria, Lesotho and South Africa is low compared to Ivory Coast where the impact is severe.
In Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso, the impact was reported to be high, and medium in Togo, Cameroon, Gabon, Namibia and Niger Republic.
It was gathered that the disruption was caused by multiple outages on undersea cables near Abidjan in Ivory Coast.
Meanwhile, according to live updates by NetBlocks, data show the telecoms disruption has intensified.
