There has been a major disruption of internet services affecting over 45 percent of subscribers across African countries mostly those along the coast of West, Central and southern Africa. This has led to major internet outages which started since Thursday 16th January and continued up till Saturday 18th January, 2020.
According to ICT experts, the disruption is as a result of undersea cable failure connecting Africa and Europe and it is affecting mobile phone access across most of the countries affected.
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.
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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.
Kelechi Deca
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