<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Listers</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">African governments have been at the forefront of internet shutdowns in the last two years. Last year <a href="http://pinigeria.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/documents/research/Digital%20Rights%20In%20Africa%20Report%202016%20(LR).pdf" style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">shaped up to be</a> “the year of internet shutdowns,” as <a href="https://qz.com/875729/how-african-governments-blocked-the-internet-to-silence-dissent-in-2016/" style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">at least</a> 11 African governments interfered with the internet during elections or <a href="https://qz.com/757824/how-the-ethiopia-protests-were-stifled-by-a-coordinated-internet-shutdown/" style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">protests</a>. More people are having to <a href="https://qz.com/878823/a-guide-to-staying-online-if-the-internet-or-social-media-has-been-blocked-in-your-country/" style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">figure out how to stay online</a> during such shutdowns.</span></div><div><br><a href="https://qz.com/892433/cameroon-shut-down-the-internet-in-anglophone-regions-like-bamenda-buea/">https://qz.com/892433/cameroon-shut-down-the-internet-in-anglophone-regions-like-bamenda-buea/</a></div><div><br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></body></html>