Counterintuitive, violating human rights, undermining democracy, violating freedom of speech and expression … this is how Facebook describes the protracted outages of the Internet and the social network between January 2020 and February 2021 in Tanzania, Chad, Ethiopia and Uganda., Reports the online magazine AITN.
Janet Kemboi, spokeswoman for East Africa for the social media giant, denounced how Internet outages in Africa are disrupting access to services like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp: “We firmly oppose closings, throttles and other interruptions to the Internet. We are very concerned about the trend in some African countries. Even temporary interruptions to internet services have enormous negative human rights, economic and social consequences, ”she said.
She pointed out that such situations are an obstacle to the development of startups. In fact, they largely depend on connectivity for access to global markets. This is, in a broader sense, a problem for the growth of the digital economy in Africa.
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