Ethiopia shuts down telephone, internet services in Tigray
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The Ethiopian government on November 4, 2020 began restricting telephone and internet services to Tigray. PHOTO |AFP
The Ethiopian government on Wednesday began restricting telephone and internet services to the troubled Tigray region, hours after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military response to an ambush on the military.
Information access rights group, Access Now, indicated the region had been closed to the world after Addis Ababa imposed a six-month State of Emergency, accusing Tigray of threatening the sovereignty of Ethiopia.
