Yemenis struggle without internet for third day after air strikes


  • World
  • Monday, 24 Jan 2022

People wait outside TeleYemen company to get satellite internet connection amid an outage of internet service in Sanaa, Yemen January 23, 2022. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

SANAA (Reuters) - Most of Yemen faced a third day without internet on Sunday after air strikes on the Red Sea city of Hodeidah, the main landing point for the country's undersea web connection, damaged its telecoms infrastructure.

In the capital Sanaa, Majid Abdullah said he was unable to receive money from relatives in Saudi Arabia at an exchange office as a result of the ongoing outage.

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