Telecoms Without Borders deployed a team of emergency responders to...
Telecoms Without Borders deployed a team of emergency responders to Timbuktu, Mali, to aid with communications in the West African country, where the government, with the help of French troops, is battling Islamist militias. The team will bring with it…
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14 portable satellite kits and other equipment necessary to create four emergency telecom centers, it said. “This equipment will deliver broadband connectivity to the humanitarian workers in the region of Timbuktu enabling them to coordinate aid to the population in the wake of the fighting,” the nongovernmental organization said Friday (http://www.tsfi.org). “Landline and mobile networks have been cut off in several towns in Northern Mali, and the activities of the NGOs in this region are very limited. The lack on communications has made a challenging security environment even worse."