[kictanet] Ethiopia turns off internet nationwide as students sit exams | Technology | The Guardian

[florence mwangangi]

Mobile telephone conversation to persons there also appears to be affected.
I have been trying to communicate with a client who is currently visiting
Ethiopia but in vain.

On 2 Jun 2017 03:41, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Ethiopia <https://www.theguardian.com/world/ethiopia> has shut off
> internet access to its citizens, according to reports from inside the
> country, apparently due leaked exam papers for the nation’s grade 10
> examinations.
>
> Outbound traffic from Ethiopia was shutdown around 4pm UK time on Tuesday, according
> to Google’s transparency report
> <https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/explorer/?r=ET&l=WEBSEARCH&csd=1495068175862&ced=1496212200000>,
> which registered Ethiopian visits to the company’s sites plummeting over
> the evening. By Wednesday afternoon, access still had not been restored.
>
> Read on:-
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/31/
> ethiopia-turns-off-internet-students-sit-exams?utm_
> campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=app
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