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Internet has been restored in Tanzania after a severe three-day outage, one of the country's major telecom companies says.
The five men suspected of murdering South African rapper AKA have been denied bail. Tanzania and the French territory of Mayotte were the worst-hit by the outage that began on Sunday morning, with connectivity levels falling below 30% of what they were expected to be.
The men appeared in the Durban magistrate's court on Wednesday. The magistrate said releasing them would be reckless and irresponsible, News24 reported. The poor connectivity prompted the US Embassy in Tanzania to close for two days and reschedule consular appointments.
Last year AKA and his close friend Tebello Motsoane were gunned down outside of a restaurant in Durban in a killing that shocked South Africans. The outage was also felt in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda to a lesser extent.
Police said hitmen were paid to target AKA but no motive was revealed. Vodacom Tanzania said on Wednesday that its network had been fully restored.
Two more men also accused are awaiting extradition from Eswatini. "To this end all customers who were unable to use their
bundles will be fully refunded," the company
added.
The patchy service was caused by a cut to two of the undersea cables which carry the data around Africa.
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