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Critical web sites are blocked in Ethiopia again

March 6th, 2009 |  |  7 Comments

After unblocking access for the past week to web sites that are deemed critical, Meles Zenawi’s dictatorial regime in Ethiopia has made them inaccessible again starting yesterday.

Ethiopian Review associates in Addis Ababa confirmed today that all of the previously blocked web sites once again cannot be opened using the Internet service provided by the state-run Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC).

The U.S.-financed regime of Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne) has made it illegal for private companies to provide Internet services in Ethiopia.

The government-owned telecom monopoly, ETC, is run by a former Woyanne intelligence officer named DebreTsion GebreMichael whose primary responsibility is to restrict access to information technology to as many people as possible. As a result, currently, there are only 30,000 Internet subscribers in Ethiopia out of 80 million people. Ethiopia has the least developed Information Technology infrastructure in the world, which is done intentionally by the vampire Woaynne regime.

Related:
* Woyanne unblocks access to news web sites in Ethiopia
* Critical Web sites inaccessible in Ethiopia
* Ethiopia’s dictatorship blocks opposition web sites
* CPJ site blocked in Ethiopia
* Ethiopia: Ginbot 7 radio program jammed
* There are only 300 broadband internet subscribers in Ethiopia
* Ethiopia mobile phone usage
* Low IT penetration impedes Africa’s e-commerce development

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7 Comments to “Critical web sites are blocked in Ethiopia again”

  1. number 11 says:

    Can we use youtube to broadcast in Ethiopia. I hope Woyane cannot block youtube

    [Reply]

    March 6th, 2009 at 6:26 PM

  2. dagne says:

    is there any way we can get the list of the website which is blocked in Ethiopia?

    [Reply]

    March 6th, 2009 at 9:14 PM

  3. Meaza says:

    After Arrest Warrant of Al Bashir, the TPLF gangs are scared to death. They know they maybe the next targets.

    My inside sources told me that the ICC is collecting evidence to issue worldwide arrest warnt to Melese Zenawi, Bereket Simon, Commander of the Agazi brige, Samora Yenus, Getcahew (head of security), Addisu Legese, Siye abreha right after October 2010 for crimes committed against innocent Ethiopians in Gambela, Awassa, Ugaden, Somali, Addis Ababa, Gonder, Oromia etc.

    Anyone with materail or documnet evidence that supporty TPLF/EPRDF’s crimes is advised to forward it to the ICC office at The Hague ASAP. Use the following contact address:

    #

    Information and Evidence Unit
    Office of the Prosecutor
    Post Office Box 19519
    2500 CM The Hague
    The Netherlands

    or sent by email to otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int ,
    or sent by facsimile to +31 70 515 8555

    [Reply]

    March 7th, 2009 at 2:40 AM

  4. Anonymous says:

    Elias,

    This is what happened. When ETC technical team do maintenance on some of the main facility during fiber cable problems and taking traffic from the Sudan link to Djibouti link, the routers that handle the restrictions go out of use and the sites temporarily open as not all configurations are done similar. In short, they did not open them intentionally – it was a mistake done by the technicians which they warned them now for. These sites in Woyanne’s eye are not supposed to be open anytime. They did not know till you and others told them they are open otherwise they could have been open longer time. I have seen the same when the fiber network was having problem due to a ship destroying it in Egypt. It was open via the satellite for a couple of days and we could see these blogs.

    Thanks,
    Observer

    [Reply]

    March 7th, 2009 at 9:37 AM

  5. Get says:

    For Number11:

    Any internet service provider can black any website. For your info, youtube is blacked in the Sudan for its pornographic content.

    For Dagne: The list of websites blocked can only be listed by the web administrator in the service provider. But you can know if a website is blocked or not by trying to access within the country.

    [Reply]

    March 7th, 2009 at 5:56 PM

  6. anonymos says:

    hi guys,
    try this link , it can encrypt the URL and can access blocked site.
    good luck

    [Reply]

    July 29th, 2011 at 6:18 PM

  7. anonymos says:

    sorry here is the link

    http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html

    [Reply]

    July 29th, 2011 at 6:20 PM

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