Claim 542

Description of where service had and had not returned by March 2021.

Published 2026-09-23. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Description of where service had and had not returned by March 2021.
Field: effect_on_reporting
Value: Partial restoration uneven across the region
About: incident 2020-ethiopia-tigray-internet-blackout
Source: Journalists struggle to work amid extended internet shutdowns in Myanmar, Ethiopia, Kashmir
Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2021-05-03

Quotation from the source

By the time I went to cover my story in March 2021, partial communications had been restored; calls and texts were working in the regional capital and surrounding areas, but not uniformly across the region.