Yemen: internet cut in the country after a coalition airstrike

Published on : 21/01/2022 – 10:00

The Saudi-led coalition shelled Hodeidah, a town in western Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels overnight from Thursday to Friday, destroying a telecommunications center and causing a nationwide internet blackout, it said. said an NGO on Friday. The organization NetBlocks, which specializes in monitoring the internet around the world, reported a “collapse of internet connections in the country” after the bombings. AFP correspondents in Hodeidah and Sanaa confirmed the outage.