Over the past week, Zimbabwe has experienced citizens protesting over raised fuel prices and high living costs. While in Sudan protests about the country’s economic problems and President Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year term started in December 2018. In both cases, the governments resorted to shutting down the internet as a method to restrain citizens from speaking freely on social media and other online platforms. Also, in both Sudan and Zimbabwe, the authorities have unleashed security forces on citizens resulting in deaths and severe injuries of protesting citizens. Both protests and internet shutdowns caught the attention of various global media organizations, and also the attention…
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