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Internet access to the west African countries -- Nigeria, Niger, Togo and Benin -- was disrupted due to damage to the South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable. The news was reported by BBC, Aljazeera and other agencies. The worst affected countries are being reported to be Niger, Nigeria, Togo and Benin. 70% of Nigeria's Internet bandwidth is reported to be cut where as Togo and Niger are completely offline. On the otherhand Benin has been reported to be back online by rerouting its traffic via its neighbouring countries.
We studied the performance measurements as gathered by the PingER projectand noticed that the affects of the outage could be observed from 24th of July and onwards. However most of the monitored sites were back online by 3rd of August.
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