{"id":278784,"date":"2019-06-13T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTMvZXRoaW9waWEtaW50ZXJuZXQtYmxhY2tvdXQtZW50ZXJzLXRoaXJkLWRheS1hdXRob3JpdGllcy1yZW1haW4tbXVtL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:32:00","slug":"netblocks-said-ethiopias-exam-season-internet-blackout-stretched-into-a-third-day-as-sms-also-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278784","title":{"rendered":"NetBlocks said Ethiopia\u2019s exam-season internet blackout stretched into a third day as SMS also failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 June 2019 Africanews reported that internet monitoring group NetBlocks said Ethiopia remained largely offline for a third day in what appeared to be an attempt to stop cheating during secondary-school final exams, with only about 10 to 12 percent of connectivity still working at times.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-501854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NetBlocks said Ethiopia\u2019s exam-season internet blackout stretched into a third day as SMS also failed\" \/>\n<p>The report said brief restorations earlier in the week were cut again, authorities had not publicly explained the outage, Ethio Telecom told the BBC it had no mandate to comment, and SMS text service was also down, while Somalia was noted as having used a similar exam-season shutdown after leaked papers.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as digital-rights archive, the Africanews\/NetBlocks account dates Ethiopia\u2019s June 2019 national-exam internet blackout as it entered its third day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/06\/13\/ethiopia-internet-blackout-enters-third-day-sms-service-suffers\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia internet blackout enters third day, SMS service suffers&nbsp;&nbsp;Africanews EnglishWhat started on Tuesday with the total block of internet access in Ethiopia is in its third day, according to internet rights monitoring group, NetBlocks. \u201cEt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":501854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=966%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755145,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278784\/revisions\/755145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}