Why Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Ivory Coast suffers Internet disruptions

If you're residing in Africa, particularly West Africa, you've likely experienced recent turbulence with your internet connection. 

How can we tell? Well, NetBlocks, the authority on monitoring internet activity, has confirmed that West Africa is grappling with significant disruptions.

Now, the blame game begins. Speculation swirls around the possible involvement of Houthi rebels in damaging the cables, yet concrete confirmation remains elusive. Meanwhile, service providers are in a frenzy to rectify the situation, but a definitive timeline for resolution remains uncertain.

Ghana's Chamber of Telecommunications has disclosed the challenges they're facing, citing outages across multiple submarine cables. This disruption has a ripple effect, impacting mobile networks and leaving users with subpar internet connectivity.

Nigeria isn't immune to the chaos either. Banks are feeling the strain, with some customers unable to conduct transactions via apps or USSD codes. The inconvenience hit close to home for me yesterday when I found myself unable to utilize my bank's USSD code for any transactions, resulting in an evening of hunger until a family member returned home. I'm hopeful that today won't present a similar struggle.

In Ivory Coast, major internet providers like Orange CI and MTN are also grappling with service outages.

However, this isn't the first instance of undersea cables causing havoc. Cast your mind back to 2020 when MTN was pointing fingers at undersea cables for similar issues in West Africa.

And who could forget 2018 when the African Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable failure led to a two-day internet blackout for ten West African countries?

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