{"id":2421,"date":"2017-07-17T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2017-07-17T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:00:37","slug":"somalias-internet-returns-after-3-week-outage-caused-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/somalias-internet-returns-after-3-week-outage-caused-outcry\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia\u2019s internet returns after 3-week outage caused outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Somalia\u2019s internet has returned after an outage of more than three weeks cost the Horn of Africa nation about $10 million a day, authorities said Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hormuud Telecom, the country\u2019s largest telecom company, announced the restoration of service in a message to subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of internet service sparked anger across Somalia and affected the central and southern parts of the country including the capital, Mogadishu. The government called it a \u201cmajor disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials and internet providers attributed the problem to a commercial ship that they said cut an undersea cable.<\/p>\n<p>Major companies reported millions of dollars in revenue losses. University studies were disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>The internet outage also complicated efforts to combat a nationwide drought that has half of the country\u2019s 12 million people in need of assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the capital celebrated the return of service. \u201cThis helps a lot,\u201d Abdirashid Duale, the CEO of the largest international Somali remittance company, Dahabshiil, told The Associated Press. While the company had a backup satellite internet service in place, \u201cthe internet outage has affected many of our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lack of internet service also stranded patients who were seeking medical attention abroad as they couldn\u2019t access online paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe internet outage had my father stuck in Mogadishu. Now we can take him to India having received all medical paperwork via internet,\u201d said Nur Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia is trying to emerge from a quarter-century of conflict. The fragile central government remains a target for the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which often carries out deadly attacks in the capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/9a9d5aabd2f34589be739405c779d7f7\/Somalia's-internet-returns-after-3-week-outage-caused-outcry\">\u2192 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia\u2019s internet has returned after an outage of more than three weeks cost the Horn of Africa nation about $10 million a day, authorities said Monday. Hormuud Telecom, the country\u2019s largest telecom company, announced the restoration of service in a message to subscribers. The loss of internet service sparked anger across Somalia and affected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","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=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/somalicentral.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}