ITU warns Africa faces prolonged internet outages with only one submarine cable repair ship

The International Advisory Body on Submarine Cable Resilience (IAB) jointly established by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) revealed that Africa is “critically underserved” when it comes to maintaining the undersea fiber-optic cables that power over 99% of its international communications. At the heart of this systemic vulnerability is a staggering logistical bottleneck: Africa’s entire subsea cable network relies on just one