East Africa’s Digital Blackout: Tanzania and Kenya lose $76.4m to internet censorship
In Africa, 12 countries recorded at least one incident of total or partial internet shutdown, as more states restricted social media use to control information flow.
Internet censorship cost Tanzania and Kenya $76.4 million in lost output last year, as the two governments cracked the whip on online freedoms to control information flow and dissent among citizens.
This is more than twice the losses attributed to such shutdowns in 2023, as more hours of internet shutdown were recorded in Kenya in June and November, according to data by Top10VPN, an internet privacy and security research and review organisation.
