cables that connect South Africa and Kenya went on the blink on Sunday, severely impacting internet services in nations in East Africa.
Ben Roberts, group chief technology and information officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies, posted on X at around 2pm SAST on Sunday that internet services in East Africa have been “severely impaired” by the problems with the two cables. “All subsea capacity between East Africa and South Africa is down,” he posted. “Eassy cable – fault confirmed. Seacom cable – observing fault that occurred at same time.”
In Kenya, the outages have impacted users on major networks and internet service providers, including Safaricom and Telkom Kenya, according to social media posts. Mobile and fixed-broadband users alike have been impacted.