In early 2024, African internet broke three times in three months. A thread on undersea cables, for people who think the cloud is in the sky (1/18)
1/ If you work remotely from Africa, your job is attached to a handful of cables lying on the sea floor. In 2024 we all learned exactly how few. 2/ February 2024: several cables in the Red Sea were damaged, including Seacom, AAE-1 and EIG. The damage was widely reported to have come from the dragging anchor of a cargo ship that had been attacked and abandoned. East African traffic to Europe and Asia had to be…