Internet Outage in East Africa: What really happened?
As of now, we are all aware that several countries in East Africa are currently experiencing internet disruptions following a sub-sea cable cut. The outage was reported on Sunday morning and seems to have extended to Monday.
As of Monday evening, users in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda were still reporting slow internet speeds with some being locked out completely.? Cloudflare Radar, which monitors Internet connectivity, says Tanzania is one the worst-affected countries with traffic falling to 30 per cent of expected levels.
The internet outage has been attributed to a cut in the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) and the Seacom cables.
“Network data show a disruption to Internet connectivity in and around multiple East Africa countries; the incident is attributed to failures affecting the SEACOM and EASSY subsea cable systems,”? NetBlocks, the global web monitor, said on X.?
What really happened? Read more here.
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