Repair of cable and fiber optic cable breaks in Yemen
Repairs have finally commenced on three subsea telecommunications cables that were damaged in the Red Sea in February, even as Houthi militants escalate their attacks on ships in the area. The AAE-1 cable, a 25 000km fibre-optic link between Asia and Europe, was repaired by a ship owned by. One cable operator has confirmed damage to a cable in the region, but said it didn't know the cause yet. Multiple reports say several subsea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea and southern Red Sea near Yemen were severed or damaged, disrupting internet traffic across parts of the Middle East, South Asia and East Africa, and fueling finger‑pointing at Yemen's Iran‑aligned Houthi rebels even as.
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