Dakar, Senegal failure
Loses 5 cables
Loses: Angola, United Arab Emirates, Benin, Bahrain, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Comoros, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Egypt, Spain, France, Gabon, United Kingdom, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Kuwait, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritania, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Tanzania, South Africa
Country becomes isolated