Two submarine internet cables that connect South Africa and Kenya went on the blink on Sunday.
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Four high-capacity internet cables were severed in a suspected subsea seismic event near Ivory Coast on 14 March.
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Internet service providers serving Africa have been forced to send their traffic via elaborate detours.
Repairs to damaged subsea cables in West Africa are expected to take at least five weeks.
Disruption to internet services for millions of users in Africa could take weeks or even months to fix.
Microsoft services should be back to 100% working order by 8pm on Friday, as the company works to mitigate the incident.
Widespread problems were affecting the internet in South Africa on Thursday due to multiple undersea cable breaks.
Seacom said it is experiencing a disruption to its cable system in the Red Sea, the site of heightened geopolitical tensions.
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