Barely a week later, internet services in Gabon were suspended on 7th January 2019 during an attempted Coup. Last year, Paradigm Initiative tracked at least eight countries in Africa that experienced government-ordered internet disruptions. Consequently, the question that comes to mind is why are we experiencing so many cases of internet disruptions? In other nations, social media disruptions have been used as a tool to restrict people’s ability to broadcast human rights abuses to the outside world. If the current wave of shutdowns so early in the year is anything to go by, we can expect a lot more internet disruptions as the year progresses.

Source: The Guardian January 22, 2019 04:52 UTC