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A couple of articles I came across from locally-based websites over the past couple of days while researching the current internet outage gives the impression that at the source of the problem lies in "cut" undersea cables located in neighboring Ivory Coast , nearby Senegal and to a lesser extent  Portugal .  This apparent half-truthing has been buttressed by innumerable other sites, many of which are international, due to the ambiguity of the information they have provided. From the start of the outage, I was under the impression that the "cut" cables may be an act of terrorism.  That's because in late February, I read  an article on Infowars which stated that Houthi (i.e. Yemenese) rebels severed major internet cables in the Red Sea .  So I thought that perhaps there was some type of global conspiracy going on, i.e. a multinational terrorist organization destroying internet cables, yet those in the know being reluctant to specify who. In a way that presump...

The current internet outage makes it clear how this service has become a standard amenity, akin to electricity, even here in Africa. DUMSOR, INTERNET STYLE Some years ago I worked at an internet cafe.  The situation was such that often, my colleauges and I would use the workplace to hustle for our daily bread. So imagine you wake up in the morning, use your last money to get to the office, hoping and praying that you'll be able to make some dough, and bam, the electricity is off.  Not only that, but it's off for the entire day.  That was something we experienced semi-regularly.  I recently heard a local politician try to argue that dumsor did not began until the NDC years (i.e. the early 2010s), and I was thinking to myself that he must've not been around during the Kufuor era. Of course, many of us continue to depend on electricty for our livlihoods.  For example, there are some welders who live nearby, and when the lights go off during these current days of ...