# Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries

<https://blog.cloudflare.com/undersea-cable-failures-cause-internet-disruptions-across-africa-march-14-2024>

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## What Jamie wrote

It is difficult to keep these massive undersea cable spans operating.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT280: Weekly Thing 280 / Canvas, Undersea, Documents](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/280/), Briefly

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