East African Internet connectivity again impacted by submarine cable cuts

Cloudflare Radar reports that new faults on the EASSy and Seacom submarine cables on May 12 disrupted Internet connectivity across multiple East African countries, worsening the impact of earlier February 24 Red Sea cable cuts (Seacom/Tata, AAE-1, EIG) that remain unrepaired. Traffic declines ranged from roughly 10–33% or more depending on the country; Kenyan providers like Safaricom and Airtel implemented redundancy measures and regulators directed alternate routing, while repairs hinge on the rapid deployment of a cable repair vessel from Cape Town.