Countries across the coast of West, Central and southern Africa are suffering an internet outage that started on Thursday. The situation remains unstable as at Friday (January 17).
Internet slows across Africa as major undersea cables falter
Reports indicate that mobile phone access is also partly impacted by the outage which was triggered by a fault to a main cable along the coast.
The West Africa Cable System, WACS, developed a fault which has caused major telcos and internet service providers to lose connectivity. Reports say the French-owned Orange group are not affected by the disruption.
The situation is confirmed across much of West Africa, MTN Cameroon for example sent a message to customers confirming an issue that they said they were working to fix.
The situation is the same in the Republic of Congo and next door Democratic Republic of Congo. The problem extends further to Angola, Namibia till parts of South Africa.