2Africa Outage Due To Turbidity Current & Limited to Cote d'Ivoire

· Subseacables Blogspot · June 29, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
Summary
The blog discusses an outage of the 2Africa undersea cable network affecting Cote d'Ivoire, attributed to turbidity currents, which are powerful underwater surges that can damage submerged cables. The piece connects this incident to previous events, such as the 2006 Taiwanese earthquake, and mentions the geological factors like the nearby cavern, Le Trou Sans Fond, which may have contributed to this outage.
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