Game servers down (maybe EA)

I live in South Africa. I logged in on Friday 10th July, as normal, around 10am into my account. Everything worked fine. Later that day when I try to log in, I get a "server offline" red square box and my ratings cannot be displayed. I use Chrome and windows 10 and have the latest patches for all. I still use Microsoft IE as back up. Since yesterday, the only way I can log into my account is off my mobile device. No issues there but not off my desktop. Today when I try to log into the game via desktop it just sits and "waits" for EA and not much else happens under Chrome. Under IE, tried at 12:30pm on the 11th, I just get a red square box in the middle of an all black screen but when I hit F5 for refresh I can see for a second, it says : Page not found. So I have to assume there are some issues on the network? load balancer or other. If that is the case, I will wait.
Hopefully the issue isn't with me.
Regards
Don