National shutdown
Although the Communications Authority of Kenya issued a statement that they do not intend to shutdown access to the Internet in reaction to expected protests the next day against the government’s plan to increase taxes, an outage was detected. We wrote in details about this incident in this blog post.
- Total Duration 8 hours
Kenya
- Population
- 55,339,003
Freedom House rates Internet freedom as Partly Free
Local impact
Although the Communications Authority of Kenya issued a statement that they do not intend to shutdown access to the Internet in reaction to expected protests the next day against the government’s plan to increase taxes, an outage was detected. We wrote in details about this incident in this blog post.
Other supporting information
Internet measurements from Cloudflare radar and IODA indicated an outage in Kenya between 13:00 and 21:00 UTC, 16:00 and 00:00 local time. The incident came amidst demonstration, and was reported as an intentional Internet shutdown by multiple sources, including international media and organizations like AccessNow and the KeepitOn coalition.
