Orange’s Marine’s Léon Thévenin ship has departed South Africa and is on its way to the area where four undersea cables broke last week, causing widespread Internet outages and slowdowns in South Africa and several other African countries.
A second ship expected to attend to the cable breaks — Global Marine’s CS Sovereign — was still moored in Portland, England, at 08:15 on Wednesday, 20 March 2024. Four submarine telecommunications cables connecting African countries to Europe and other parts of the world went offline at about 12:30 on Thursday, 14 March 2024 — the West Africa Cable System , Africa Coast to Europe , MainOne, and SAT–3 cables.Houthi terrorists sinking a fertiliser shipWhile the cause of the breaks remains to be confirmed, a preliminary analysis by submarine fibre cable operator MainOne indicates that seismic activity on the seabed caused its submarine fibre cable to break.
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