Africa suffers major internet outage after undersea cable failures

The majority of West and Central Africa suffered a severe internet outage after the operator of many subsea cables reported failures, The Guardian reported. Subsea cable operator Seacom South Africa Pty Ltd. confirmed that services on its west African cable system were down and customers who are dependent on that cable were being redirected to the Google Equiano cable. The outage has affected at least a dozen countries.