Sea cable cut leads to internet outage in East Africa

There was an internet outage in Uganda and a couple other East African countries on Sunday afternoon, leading to several complaints by users.

It was reported that this affected over 80 million users in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

It has been reported that the problem was caused by an under sea cable cut as internet services became
either slow or intermittent in  as many Internet Service providers reported difficulties.

Most ISPs in the region, especially telecoms, depend on the upstream bulk sea cable haulers of
internet traffic to the region.

These cable services, among others, include EASSY and SEACOM that are relied upon to connect millions to the global internet traffic.

It was not immediately established what caused the cut.

The other reported impact is the Google Cache services. This service allows internet users to get localised search results every time they search the internet.