{"id":18029,"date":"2025-03-09T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T08:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/internet-shutdowns-at-record-high-in-africa-as-access-weaponised\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T08:38:03","slug":"internet-shutdowns-at-record-high-in-africa-as-access-weaponised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/internet-shutdowns-at-record-high-in-africa-as-access-weaponised\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access \u2018weaponised\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More governments seeking to keep millions of people offline amid conflicts, protests and political instability<\/p>\n<p>Digital blackouts reached a record high in 2024 in Africa as more governments sought to keep millions of citizens off the internet than in any other period over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>A report released by the internet rights group Access Now and #KeepItOn, a coalition of hundreds of civil society organisations worldwide, found there were 21 shutdowns in 15 African countries, surpassing the existing record of 19 shutdowns in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/09\/internet-shutdowns-record-high-africa-2024-access-weaponised\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6b2b84f8c8ddf03d7ffe1c1de63861003b6a8ab1\/0_60_4500_2700\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=49d7971784654feb5e6f79a2fb25fa12\" title=\"Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access \u2018weaponised\u2019\" \/>More governments seeking to keep millions of people offline amid conflicts, protests and political instability<br \/>\nDigital blackouts reached a record high in 2024 in Africa as more governments sought to keep millions of citizens off the internet than in any other period over the last decade.<br \/>\nA report released by the internet rights group Access Now and #KeepItOn, a coalition of hundreds of civil society organisations worldwide, found there were 21 shutdowns in 15 African countries, surpassing the existing record of 19 shutdowns in 2020 and 2021. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More governments seeking to keep millions of people offline amid conflicts, protests and political instability Digital blackouts reached a record high in 2024 in Africa as more governments sought to keep millions of citizens off the internet than in any other period over the last decade. A report released by the internet rights group Access &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/internet-shutdowns-at-record-high-in-africa-as-access-weaponised\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access \u2018weaponised\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}