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INT: Internet shutdowns return to pre-pandemic trends
Internet shutdowns are returning to pre-pandemic levels across all major developing regions
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-GA269997
ISSN: 2633-304X
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For over a month, the government has imposed an internet shutdown in the largely anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest Cameroon. This stoppage followed a government…
Authoritarian governments are increasingly blocking or restricting internet access to suppress domestic dissent
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-GA245264
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Relatively low internet penetration rates (an average of 40% across the continent) and stark differences in digital access within and across states mask social media’s increasing…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB260238
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Nigerian social media.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB238815
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Civil society actors routinely use social media to spread content that fuels anti-government sentiment, to organise demonstrations and to document and amplify protest actions…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB265016
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Workers’ protests in Iran have been growing due to the impact of sanctions, economic mismanagement, low and unpaid wages, inflation, increasing poverty levels and corruption. The…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270452
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They face trial for “complicity in acts of terrorism, insurrection, rebellion and the propagation of false information”. Anglophone Cameroonians in the Northwest and Southwest…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB221952
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His killing has triggered violent protests and attacks mainly against ethnic Amharas in Oromia region. At least 81 people are confirmed dead; with information constrained by an…