<p>A major internet disruption hit West and Central <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/africa">Africa</a> on Thursday, the internet observatory Netblocks said, citing reports from operators of multiple subsea cable failures.</p><p>The cause of the cable failures was not immediately clear.</p><p>Ivory Coast was experiencing a severe outage, while Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso were seeing a high impact, Netblocks's data showed.</p><p>Internet firm Cloudflare said on one of its X accounts that monitors trends that major internet disruptions were ongoing in Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin and Niger.</p><p>"There seems to be a pattern in the timing of the disruptions, impacting from the north to the south of Africa," Cloudflare Radar said.</p><p>South African telecoms operator Vodacom also blamed connectivity issues on undersea cable failures affecting the country's network providers.</p>
<p>A major internet disruption hit West and Central <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/africa">Africa</a> on Thursday, the internet observatory Netblocks said, citing reports from operators of multiple subsea cable failures.</p><p>The cause of the cable failures was not immediately clear.</p><p>Ivory Coast was experiencing a severe outage, while Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso were seeing a high impact, Netblocks's data showed.</p><p>Internet firm Cloudflare said on one of its X accounts that monitors trends that major internet disruptions were ongoing in Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin and Niger.</p><p>"There seems to be a pattern in the timing of the disruptions, impacting from the north to the south of Africa," Cloudflare Radar said.</p><p>South African telecoms operator Vodacom also blamed connectivity issues on undersea cable failures affecting the country's network providers.</p>