Company
Date Published
Jan. 21, 2022
Author
João Tomé
Word count
243
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

On January 21, 2022, Yemen experienced a country-wide internet outage, likely due to airstrikes that reportedly hit a telecommunications building in Al-Hudaydah. The main state-owned ISP, Public Telecommunication Corporation (AS30873), was significantly affected by the outage. This follows other significant internet disruptions in 2022 for various reasons, including cable problems, unrest, coup plots, and natural disasters.