Outbound traffic from Ethiopia was shutdown around 4pm UK time on Tuesday, according to Google’s transparency report, which registered Ethiopian visits to the company’s sites plummeting over the evening. Moses Karanja (@Mose_Karanja) Another Ethiopian Internet Shutdown During National Examshttps://t.co/4MFA1TDdSe #keepiton #EthiopiaLast year, activists leaked the papers for the country’s 12th grade national exams, calling for the postponement of the papers due to a school shutdown in the regional state of Oromia. Now, the government appears to have taken the move to shut down internet access as a preventative measure. In July 2016, the government blocked a significant amount of traffic after university entrance exams were posted online; another block followed in August of that year. The move is a common one across many developing nations: Algeria also blocked access to social media, in June last year, in an attempt to fight cheating in school exams.

Source: Ethiopian News May 31, 2017 14:03 UTC