Africa is at the forefront of global mobile device web traffic, with a significant number of businesses on the continent depending on the internet to provide services to their clientele.
A significant internet outage struck a dozen countries across Africa on Thursday, attributed to reported failures in multiple undersea telecommunication cables, as confirmed by network operators and internet monitoring organizations.
The MTN Group, counted among Africa’s largest network providers, cited failures in several major undersea cables as the cause behind the ongoing disruptions. In a statement, the South African company assured that their operations were actively engaged in redirecting traffic through alternative network paths to mitigate the impact of the outage.
