By htxt.africa
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has joined forces with a number of companies to attempt a rather ambitious task: to equip submarine communications cables with sensors that would be able to relay data such as impending tsunamis or earthquakes. Around Africa is a number of undersea cables which provide broadband internet to the continent, most notably SAT3, Seacom, Main One, WACS, ACE and EASSy.