SurveillanceMedium
Resilience and resistance: internet shutdowns in Africa in 2025
- Occurred
- Mar 31, 2026
- Published
- Mar 31, 2026
- Source
- Access Now
Summary
Launching today, March 31, 2026, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition’s new report, Rising repression meets global resistance: Internet shutdowns in 2025, reveals that at least 313 shutdowns were implemented in 52 countries. In Africa, the internet was shut down 30 times in 15 countries. The post Resilience and resistance: internet shutdowns in Africa in 2025 appeared first on Access Now.
Tags
- #KeepItOn
- internet shutdowns
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Report documents internet shutdowns as a form of digital repression and surveillance control.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8