Regional shutdown
Mobile Internet Services
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
- Total Duration 13 days
Ethiopia
- Population
- 135,472,051
- UN Classification
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- Least Developed Country
- Land Locked Developing Country
Freedom House rates Internet freedom as Not Free
Other supporting information
The Internet was reported to have been cut in parts of southern Ethiopia, including the main city of Hawassa, as activists protested the delay of a referendum to establish a separate regional state for the Sidama ethnic group. The Sidama are Ethiopia's fifth biggest ethnic group, making up 4% of the population, and mainly reside in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region (SNNPR). Ethiopia has an ethnically based federal system, with its four biggest communities having their own regions.