[HIGHLIGHTS] Internet: part of Africa affected by a giant outage

Outage affects several submarine cables providing Internet to West and Central Africa. Outages first affected Gambia, Guinea and Liberia at 5 a.m.

GMT. Then affected Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Benin at 7:30 a.M. GMT, then Niger at 9:15. Cause of outage has not yet been identified, Internet company Cloudflare reports. Submarine cable operator SEACOM confirms that its cable system in West Africa is experiencing an outage, and affected customers are being redirected to another cable.