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Mobile internet access in Ethiopia has been blocked by the government – but officials are refusing to say why.<\/p>\n

It was reported last year that the country banned access to social media sites\u00a0after university entrance exams were leaked online.<\/p>\n

There has been speculation that similar motives lie behind the latest “blackout”, although some reject this.<\/p>\n

A state of emergency has been in effect in Ethiopia since October, following anti-government protests.<\/p>\n

Mobile internet access has been disabled on other occasions recently, including a period of a few weeks last year.<\/p>\n

\"Ethiopia<\/span><\/figure>\n

“Mobile data has been deactivated,” deputy communications minister Zadig Abraha told the AFP news agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the BBC was unable to access websites belonging to the Ethiopian government and the sole communications provider, Ethio Telecom.<\/p>\n

There were reports that fixed-line broadband connections had also been affected.<\/p>\n

Preliminary data from Google suggested that there had indeed been a big drop in Ethiopian internet traffic to Google services since Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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