The West African coast countries affected by subsea cable cut
The West African coast countries were affected by the ACE subsea cable cut near Noukachott in Mauritania. Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and Gambia experienced connectivity outages depending on their distance from the inflicted area and number of redundant backbone infrastructure. The most significant outage hit Mauritania that lost all Internet connection for nearly 2 days.
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