The West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA) is moving to transform global recommendations on submarine cable resilience into a coordinated regional strategy, as West African regulators seek to prevent a repeat of the internet outages that crippled businesses, banking services and government operations across the region last year.
The push follows the publication of recommendations by the Working Groups of the International Advisory Body on Submarine Cable Resilience, a global initiative established by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) to strengthen the resilience of the submarine cable networks that carry more than 95 percent of global internet traffic.
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Aliyu Yusuf Aboki, executive secretary of WATRA and a member of the International Advisory Body, said West Africa is now well positioned to translate the global recommendations into practical regional measures after the lessons
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