Internet connectivity was restored in Niger late Friday, an AFP journalist found, after ten days of interruption following unrest over official results handing the ruling-party candidate a win in last month’s presidential elections.
Neither the government nor the west African country’s four telecoms firms explained the outage, which hobbled communications and the financial system across Niger — one of the world’s poorest nations.
Civil society organisation ROTAB and lawyers’ association AJAN had both publicly announced filings of legal complaints in the hours before internet access was restored.
In the capital Niamey, people began noticing connectivity was back around 11:30 pm (2230 GMT), with one phone company messaging clients to say the service interruption was “independent of its will”.
An industry association said the outage had cost Niger’s three private telecoms firms around 80 million CFA francs (120,000 euros, $145,000) per day.
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Source: Guardian Newspaper
