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Mar
Niël Terblanché Namibians reliant on the internet voiced severe frustration as a significant internet service disruption has left numerous countries across West and Central Africa wrestling with connectivity issues, following failures in several subsea cables. The cause of the outage, which occurred on Thursday, remains undetermined, sparking widespread concern among the affected nations, including Namibia and Lesotho. Seacom, a major operator of African subsea cable systems, confirmed the disruption to its West African cable service. In response, the company has redirected its customers to an alternative route via the Google Equiano cable, a process that occurs automatically to mitigate the…