Communication outage in northern Mozambique

Mozambique's main fibre-optic cable for the communication system in northern Mozambique broke down earlier this week. The actual breakdown has been located north of the town of Vilankulo, in Mozambique's Inhambane province. The cable is on the sea-bed, at a depth of over 30 metres, and can't get repaired by the country's public telecommunications provider TDM. Assistence from outside Mozambique is needed; repairing the fault is expected to take not less than four weeks.