加蓬表示，已解除八个月前实施的社交媒体禁令——该举措当时引发了广泛批评。
Gabon says it has lifted a ban on social media imposed eight months ago - a move that triggered widespread criticism at the time.
高等传播管理局（HAC）周六在一份电视声明中宣布了这一转向。BBC已就此向该国媒体监管机构寻求置评。
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.
禁令于2月17日实施，当时高等传播管理局称，网络内容正在助长冲突并加深该国的分裂。
The ban had been introduced on 17 February, with the HAC saying that online content was fuelling conflict and deepening divisions in the country.
这一举措令这个约250万人口的中非国家感到震惊，在该国，Facebook、TikTok、YouTube和Instagram等社交媒体平台在年轻人中尤为流行，他们将其用于商业和娱乐。禁令实施后，许多人转而使用VPN以继续访问社交媒体网站。
The move came as a shock to the central African nation of about 2.5 million people, where social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram have been 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.
禁令实施之际，加蓬总统布里斯·奥利吉·恩圭马面临一波社会动荡，距离他当选尚不足一年。教师和公务员发起罢工，抗议薪资过低、工作条件恶劣。反对派称暂停社交媒体是滥用职权。
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.
恩圭马去年以超过90%的得票率赢得大选，此前两年他的政变结束了邦戈家族长达五十多年的统治。
Nguema won last year's elections with more than 90% of the vote, two years after his coup had ended more than five decades of rule by the Bongo family.
当时他承诺改革加蓬，这个虽小但石油和木材资源丰富的国家，此前历届政府曾利用数字断网来控制信息。
At the time he pledged to reform Gabon, a small, oil- and timber-rich country, where digital blackouts were used by the previous governments to control information.