Ethiopia Still Tampering with Internet Access - ReportSeptember 23, 2018 - Just five months into the new government of Dr. Abiy Ahmed, the administration is back into the old habit of tampering with internet in times of crisis, according to Netizen Report. According to the report, "on September 17, in what appeared to be an effort to quell social unrest, mobile internet networks were shut down across the capital city. However, the new government seems to be falling into the old habit of using the brute force tactic of tampering with the internet to control information. According to Internet World Stats, 15.3 percent of the population uses internet in Ethiopia, as opposed to 53.7 percent for South Africa. Internet shutdowns are believed to cost Ethiopia millions of dollars every month, making business communications into and out of the country difficult.

Source: Ethiopian News September 23, 2018 17:26 UTC