On March 14, 2024, we observed a large outage in several West African countries. In Ivory Coast and Liberia, the outage was quite severe, affecting 93% of the active network blocks:
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Fortunately some locations were able to partially recover from the problems, presumably by routing through different paths:
![](https://ant.isi.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/west_africa_outage_2024-03-14c-1024x866.png)
The root cause for these outages is likely a problems in multiple undersea telecommunication cables, as has been reported in the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other places.