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#NoExamShutdown

#NoExamShutdown: lessons for the new academic year

18 Sep 2025 •

Across the MENA region, governments are imposing internet shutdowns during student exams. Read our exam shutdown report card and join the call for governments to keep this academic year free of internet shutdowns.

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#NoExamShutdown: lessons for the new academic year

18 Sep 2025

#NoExamShutdown: lessons for the new academic year

Image: Two Years in the dark is two years too long

Tell the African Union to help reconnect the internet in Tigray and across Ethiopia

1 Nov 2022 •

The world must stand with the people of Ethiopia. Join us to call on African Union leaders to condemn the Ethiopian government’s prolonged shutdown, and intervene to restore internet access across Tigray and beyond.

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1 Nov 2022

Tell the African Union to help reconnect the internet in Tigray and across Ethiopia

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