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Ethiopian social media lovers have a reason to smile as they are now back online after being blocked for five months.<\/p>\n
Ethiopians are now able to access Social media networks like Facebook and Instagram\u00a0 on Wednesday 19 July 2023 ,according to an internet advocacy organisation and an AFP journalist.<\/p>\n
A service run by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), an association that tracks online censorship, showed that access to social networks in Africa\u2019s second-most populous country was freely available after being shut down in early February.<\/p>\n
An AFP journalist in Addis Ababa was able to access sites including Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok without using a virtual private network (VPN), a mechanism that enables an internet connection from a different location.<\/p>\n
OONI and other internet censorship watchdogs reported a social media blackout in Ethiopia since February 9.<\/p>\n
But the government has not commented on the shutdown, and neither the government in Addis Ababa nor the state provider Ethio Telecom has responded to queries from AFP.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International said the blockage followed calls for street protests by leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church after a group of rebel archbishops created a dissident synod.<\/p>\n
Planned demonstrations over the move were eventually cancelled after a meeting of church leaders brokered by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in mid-February, but social media sites remained offline.<\/p>\n
Ethiopian authorities have cut or throttled access to the internet and social media platforms many times in recent years.<\/p>\n
Between 2015 and 2017, connectivity was interrupted on a number of occasions by the previous government as it faced the largest street protest movement in 25 years.<\/p>\n
Under Abiy, this tendency has continued.<\/p>\n
The northern region of Tigray, the scene of an armed conflict with the federal government, was largely deprived of telecommunications for the two-year duration of the war.<\/p>\n
Networks in Tigray have been partially restored since a peace agreement was signed in November 2022.<\/p>\n
An journalist in Addis Ababa was able to access sites including Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok without using a virtual private network (VPN), a mechanism that enables an internet connection from a different location.<\/p>\n
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