Burkina Faso Extends Internet Outage Before Weekend Protest
- Opposition groups plan protest to demand president resign
- Insurgency in West Africa has engulfed gold-producing nation
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Burkina Faso extended its nationwide shutdown of mobile internet access for 96 hours, as opposition groups prepared to protest Saturday against President Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
Residents of the West African nation have been cut off from the internet since last weekend. The government used a legal provision related to national defense and public security to prolong the outage, according to a government statement issued late Wednesday.