Internet connectivity has been restored in the Republic of Niger.
The restoration comes ten days after an unrest that followed the victory of ruling-party candidate. Mohamed Bazoum in last month’s presidential elections.
Two people died and hundreds were detained in unrest that broke out after Mohamed Bazoum, the anointed successor of incumbent Mahamadou Issoufou, was declared the winner of the February 21 presidential poll.
Official results gave him 55.7 percent of the vote, but challenger Mahamane Ousmane claims he edged out a win with 50.3 percent.
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”.
Reasons behind the outage are yet unknown as neither the government nor the west African country’s four telecoms firms have explained the development which hobbled communications and the financial system across Niger — one of the world’s poorest nations.
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.
Niger has cut internet access in the past, including access to social media and text messaging during 2015 riots over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed by French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
