Ethiopia reconnects the Internet
Ethiopia has announced that it has ‘reconnected the Internet for citizens to make the technology a free confluence of ideas’, reopening access to 264 blocked websites, blogs, Ethiopian Satellite Radio and Television (ESAT) and Oromo Media Network (OMN). Fitus Areaga, the prime minister’s chief of staff, noted the importance of freedom of expression on Twitter.
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