The African nation of Tanzania has reconnected to the internet after a five day outage.

As noted by outage-watcher NetBlocks and Cloudflare’s Radar service, traffic to and from Tanzania dropped to near-zero early on October 29th – the date of national elections for a new president.

The poll went ahead despite the government barring opposition candidates from standing.

Bizarrely, Gerson Msigwa, Chief Government Spokesman of Tanzania, instructed civil servants to work from home during the outage, without explaining how they could fulfil their duties.

The election had two outcomes. One was widespread protests in Tanzania, which were met with violence that reportedly led to at least 500 deaths.

The other was re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who on November 4th was sworn in at

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