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Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries

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Feed Name: Cloudflare Blog

Date Published: 2024-03-14

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: João Tomé

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On March 14, 2024, [Cloudflare Radar] observed widespread Internet disruptions across 13 West and Central African countries and South Africa due to multiple submarine cable failures ([WACS], [MainOne], [SAT-3/WASC], [ACE]); impacts were reported by operators like [Vodacom], [MTN], and [Celtiis], with varying outage durations, reduced [Azure] capacity, and temporary routing issues that took [MainOne]’s website/DNS offline, while traffic recovery progressed in some networks and monitoring continues via the [Cloudflare Radar Outage Center].

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