Somalia’s government says it has restored internet connections across the country’s south and central regions, more than 20 days after an outage blamed on a merchant ship which accidentally cut an under sea fibre-optic cable, state-owned Radio Mogadishu has reported.
Officials said the outage affected government and business operations, and cost the countryaround $10m (£7.7m) a day.
This is how a Voice of America’s Somalia reporter Maruf has tweeted the development.
BREAKING: Internet service restored in #Mogadishu after 23-days outage: residents pic.twitter.com/Leu7Wtz0t4
— Harun Maruf (@HarunMaruf) July 17, 2017
