PEACE

The past three months have witnessed several submarine cable interruptions across the African continent, resulting in the degradation of the Internet experience of users in multiple countries at different times during this period. Submarine cables are responsible for connecting Africa to the rest of the world using high-speed fibre optic infrastructure. As countries continue to roll out fibre optic infrastructure further into the hinterlands and last-mile access to customers, access to the global Internet largely depends on submarine cables.  Over 90% of the Internet traffic to and from Africa is via submarine cable systems. As more users in Africa adopt…