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The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed for two days due to an internet outage affecting several East African countries.
"Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public," the embassy said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has ordered all government agencies to purchase only gas-powered vehicles as part of the country's efforts to transition to cleaner energy and cut high fuel costs.
It cancelled all consular appointments for Tuesday and Wednesday and rescheduled them to a later date. In the directive issued on Monday by presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale, Mr Tinubu said he expected all government departments and agencies to start disposing of all petrol or diesel-powered vehicles going forward.
The embassy will, however, remain accessible for visa collections and for handling emergency cases involving American citizens. All new government vehicles, generators, or tricycles must utilise compressed natural gas (CNG), solar power or be powered by electric energy sources, the president added.
The internet outage has persisted since Sunday morning, causing poor connectivity in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. President Tinubu expressed his commitment to effectively harness the country's gas potential to alleviate the burden of high transportation costs on the masses.
Metrics shared by internet monitoring group NetBlocks on Monday showed that Tanzania has been worst hit by the outage. The directive comes a few weeks after the government announced plans to roll out more than 2,000 gas-powered buses and tricycles in an effort to slash transportation costs before 29 May, when President Tinubu turns one year in office.
The patchy service is a result of faults in the under-sea cables that connect the region to the rest of the world through South Africa, industry expert Ben Roberts told the BBC. Nigeria holds Africa’s largest gas reserves but they are under-utilised due to inadequate processing facilities.
On Monday, some East Africans were still experiencing slow internet speeds with some telecom providers indicating that the issue was yet to be fully resolved.
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