{"id":453476,"date":"2023-07-07T05:15:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T09:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=453476"},"modified":"2023-07-07T05:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T09:15:03","slug":"ethiopian-pm-falsely-claims-france-has-made-a-decision-to-block-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/453476","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian PM falsely claims France has made a decision to block internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday falsely claimed the western European nation, France has made a decision to block internet connection domestically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PM made the remark during an end of 2022\/2023 fiscal year report to Ethiopian parliament, apparently drawing a parallel with his government\u2019s continuing internet restriction on his country to those of \u201cdeveloped democracies\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethiopia has blocked several social media apps including Tik-Tok, Telegram, Facebook and WhatsApp since February at a time of heightened government led efforts to divide Ethiopia Orthodox Tewhado Church (EOTC).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though, the tension between the EOTC and the Ethiopian government seems to have subsided for now, the internet restriction still continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRegarding media reports about Ethiopia\u2019s internet restrictions, it isn\u2019t only Ethiopia. You\u2019ve heard recently there was a problem in France. For the first time a decision has been made in France to sever the internet. This often happens in Africa, but it\u2019s not usual in the western world,\u201d Abiy told parliamentarians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Immediately after the PM\u2019s speech multiple media reports by independent journalists and media outlets debunked Abiy\u2019s claim on France shutting down the internet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, a fake letter purporting to be from the French government authorizing internet shutdown in the European country seems to have been the source of PM Abiy\u2019s false claims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday falsely claimed the western European nation, France has made a decision to block internet connection domestically.\u00a0 The PM made the remark during an end of 2022\/2023 fiscal year report to Ethiopian parliament, apparently drawing a parallel with his government\u2019s continuing internet restriction on his country to those of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":453477,"comment_status":"open","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":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-453476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/fack1.jpg?fit=715%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1TY8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453476","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453478,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453476\/revisions\/453478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}