Dear All,

At least 3 million Internet users in Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia have 
remained offline for three days. Internet interruption was experienced from 
Saturday shutting most of the users during the Eid festivities. The outage has 
affected money transactions firms and other businesses that rely on the 
internet. A number of government offices have also been rendered offline. The 
outage follows the destruction of fiber optic wires under the Indian Ocean that 
connects Somalia and rest of the world. It is not yet clear when normal 
services will resume as businesses continue to lose thousands of dollars and 
communication with families and friends become almost impossible. Ministry of 
Telecommunication says the outage caused by damage to the fiber optic cables by 
a large ship may take more than a week to repair.


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Mr. Abdirashid Ibrahim Abdirahman
Somaliland
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