Gabon says it has lifted a burn on social media imposed eight months ago a move that triggered widespread criticism at the time.
The High Communication Authority (HAC) announced the U turn on Saturday in a televised statement. The BBC has approached the country’s media regulator for comment.

The ban had been introduced on 17th February, with the HAC saying that Online content was fueling conflict and deepening divisions in the country.
The move came as a shock to the Central African nation about 2.5million people, where social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, you tube and INSTAGRAM HAVE Ben particularly popular with younger people who use it for business as well as pleasure.

Many turned to VPNs in order to continue accessing social media sites following the ban.
The ban had been imposed at a time when the Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema was facing a wave of social unrest less than a year after his election.

Teachers and civil servants had staged strikes over what they said were low pay and poor working conditions.
The Opposition said the suspension was an abuse of power.

Nguema won last year’s won last year’s election with more than 90percent of the vote, two years after his coup had ended more than five decades of rule by the Bongo family.
At the time he pledged to reform Gabon, a small oil and timber rich country, where digital blackouts were used by the previous government to control information