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As this publication reported yesterday, several West, Central, and South African countries have severely degraded internet services after a disruption of several undersea cables off the coast of the Ivory Coast. NetBlocks identified the cable failures to damage on the WACS, MainOne, SAT3 and ACE subsea fiber networks. The Telecommunications Regulatory Agency concurred with this assessment in a separate announcement. https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1768408657895592325 As...

Update (1039 EST): Ivory Coast's largest internet service providers, Orange CI and MTN are reporting severe degradations. However, Moov Africa internet services are still available as of this update. The cable cut has reportedly been narrowed to around Abidjan, Ivory Coast. As this publication reported this morning, several West and Central African nations have reported intense internet outages. NetBlocks was...