Monday Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outageįacebook, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, issued a statement on the Facebook Engineering blog Monday evening explaining that a configuration issue likely caused the outage.But 3.5 billion Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users lost access to the apps for more than five hours Monday, during a massive service crash for the company. Immigrants in particular rely on messaging apps such as WhatsApp to text and call family, friends, and coworkers aboard. But on Monday afternoon, while she was able to explain her backup plan to Sahan Journal, she had no way of immediately updating her mother. Department of State to make sure her mother finds another flight out of Afghanistan. She might even go to the airport, but there’s no flight,” Baha told Sahan Journal.īaha is in touch with the U.S. “She might get ready, might be looking for a ride. But when the system crashed Monday, Baha had no way of alerting her. She’d been communicating with her 65-year-old mother on WhatsApp.
Paul, spent the day scrambling to come up with a plan. Baha’s mother was supposed to fly out of Kabul Monday evening - until Baha saw that her mother’s flight got canceled.īaha, an IT manager at the Amherst H. Īmina Baha finally booked a flight to the United States for her mother, Sabera Baha, who’s been stuck in Afghanistan for the past four months. MPR News is a partner with Sahan Journal and will be sharing stories between and.
This story comes to you from Sahan Journal, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to providing authentic news reporting about Minnesota's new immigrants and refugees.
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