Google’s transparency report shows a sharp drop in Ethiopia's internet traffic. (Google)Ethiopia said it had deactivated its internet services on Tuesday at the same time as more than a million year 10 students sat their national exams. Google’s transparency report registered a sharp drop in national visits to the search engine, coinciding with the lead-up to the nation's year 10 and 12 school and university exams. It's the second time in recent months that Africa's second most populous country has turned off its mobile data service, which most businesses and consumers rely on for internet access. https://twitter.com/zelalemkibret/status/869878604959797248While the Ethiopian government had admitted to temporarily disabling internet services, it offered no specific explanation for the countrywide outage.

Source: Ethiopian News June 01, 2017 05:37 UTC