Some internet service has returned to the residents of Yemen, and Burkina Faso after violence in both countries led to outages over the last week. 

NetBlocks, an organization tracking internet access worldwide, said the internet was restored in Yemen after a four-day nationwide outage. 

?? Confirmed: Internet is being restored in#Yemen after a four-day long nation-scale blackout
Connectivity collapsed after a series of deadly airstrikes. The incident severely limited independent media and human rights monitoring efforts.
Report: https://t.co/571sVb9PdP pic.twitter.com/C5Z2idqlGu

- NetBlocks (@netblocks) January 24, 2022

At about 1am local time on Friday, Yemen suffered a total internet blackout due to airstrikes on a telecommunications hub in the port city of Al Hodeida. 

Some online shared photos of a telecommunications building damaged by bombs.The Associated Presseventually confirmed that the attack on the telecommunications hub in Al Hodeida was part of a larger aerial assault on Yemen's Houthi rebels by a Saudi-led coalition. 

The Houthis now run the state-owned monopoly that controls the country's internet access, TeleYemen. A news channel in Yemen said the attack on the telecommunications hub killed an unknown number of people. 

"Visual reports appeared to corroborate initial reports of a strike. Al Hodeida is the main landing point for internet connectivity in Yemen, hosting the undersea FALCON and SEA-ME-WE 5 cables that route via the Red Sea," NetBlocks explained in a report. TeleYemen uses the FALCON cable to connect much of the country's western population to the internet. 

SMEX, an internet advocacy organization in the Middle East, attributed the internet outage to Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Houthi-held cities like Al Hodeida. 

"Internet is now only available to large companies and banks still connected through satellites, as well as those subscribed to the 'Aden Net' network, which has a very limited number of subscribers," SMEX explained, adding that all government servers were disrupted after the attack. 

The Saudi-led coalition did not confirm whether it specifically targeted the telecommunications hub in Al Hodeida but toldThe Associated Pressthat it did launch "accurate airstrikes to destroy the capabilities of the militia" in Al Hodeida.

The Washington Postreported that citizens were terrified during the internet outage because they could not contact family members and friends during the deadly bombing campaign. 

Internet in Burkina Faso shut down during coup

Mobile internet in Burkina Faso was down for more than 35 hours as fighting between rival military factions broke out. 

Since the outage, the president of the country, Roch Marc Christian Kabor