{"id":2356,"date":"2017-07-08T16:26:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T16:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2017-07-10T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:39:06","slug":"somalia-internet-outage-is-major-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/somalia-internet-outage-is-major-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia internet outage is &#8216;major disaster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Somalia&#8217;s government says an ongoing internet outage is costing the country $10m (\u00a37.7m) each day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The outage affects southern Somalia, and was caused by damage to an undersea fibre-optic cable more than two weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Somali Post and Telecommunications Minister Abdi Anshur Hassan has called the incident a &#8220;major disaster&#8221;, costing Somalia &#8220;more than $130m&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He said the cable was being fixed and service will be restored &#8220;this week&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Somalia&#8217;s internet &#8216;culture shock&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">After more than 20 years of conflict, internet usage is low in Somalia, with just 1.6% of the population online in 2014, according to estimates by the International Telecommunication Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2358\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/ja.jpg\" data-rel=\"pop-gallery-vRxR1sn9\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2358\" src=\"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/ja.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/ja.jpg 624w, http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/ja-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many Somalis rely on internet cafes rather than 3G or satellite internet<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">That same year, 3G mobile phone services in southern Somalia were cut off because of a threat from al-Shabab Islamist militants and the ban has stayed in place ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Satellite internet is available, but users complain that it is costly and slow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s3\">Internet cafes have therefore proved popular in towns and cities, as they provide more reliable connectivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2192 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-40555122\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fibre-optic link into Somalia via Kenya was opened in 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}