Tanzania has restricted access to the social media platform X/Twitter amid rising political tensions in the country.
Details
Internet observatory organization Netblocks confirmed the outage to the platform, reporting that X has been limited on Tanzania’s primary internet providers.
Digging Deeper
Prominent political opposition figures including Tundu Lissu from the Chadema party, have been arrested and taken into custody by security forces.
Tanzania’s police force, TANPOL, claims that the opposition is using Zoom meetings to organize small groups of about 20 people and planning to raid offices and police stations.
Flashback
Last year, authorities contemplated introducing a mandatory license for VPN use to control internet usage in the country.
Souce: Tech in Africa/Sylvia Duruson
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