Dear all, <div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556564239457">What happened yesterday was an unbelievable nightmare.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556564322272">Up to twenty social media and some VPN as Openvpn were blocked around 12 am on saturday night. Both MNO subscribers were affected. The internet community used alternative VPN apps and started designing a plan and posting tweets.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556564570770">From 10am to 01PM, we started notice complete shutdown of ISPs and MNO one after one.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556564787865">The community abroad continued the tweets and a joined statement involving many associations was published (URL below).</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565516569"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565212372">Finally, Internet came back around 12:20 AM on monday morning.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565350183"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565350378">Till now, no official answer from the government or regulator despite the multiple calls.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565556923">The community is still organizing to continue actions. </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565620356">Thanks to all those who are supporting us.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565622965">I will keep you informed.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565623159"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565651443">statement:</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565623307"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><font color="#000000" face="monospace, monospace"><b>FR</b> : <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/lettre-ouverte-sur-le-maintien-de-linternet-ouvert-et-securise-au-benin/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.accessnow.org/lettre-ouverte-sur-le-maintien-de-linternet-ouvert-et-securise-au-benin/&source=gmail&ust=1556580012182000&usg=AFQjCNHUcSlIVvmEguwei7kEmFCVneRrqQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(66, 133, 244);">https://www.accessnow.org/<wbr>lettre-ouverte-sur-le-<wbr>maintien-de-linternet-ouvert-<wbr>et-securise-au-benin/</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><font color="#000000" face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><font color="#000000" face="monospace, monospace"><b>EN</b>: <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/benin-heads-to-elections-without-social-media-and-opposition-parties/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.accessnow.org/benin-heads-to-elections-without-social-media-and-opposition-parties/&source=gmail&ust=1556580012182000&usg=AFQjCNHeMBYRCZvpjenk2Ma6-G8mkULXnw" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(66, 133, 244);" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565647482">https://www.accessnow.org/<wbr>benin-heads-to-elections-<wbr>without-social-media-and-<wbr>opposition-parties/</a></font></div></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1556565250028">  <br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Envoyé depuis Yahoo Mail pour Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>Le lun., avr. 29, 2019 à 16:58, Iyedi Goma</div><div><iyedigoma@gmail.com> a écrit :</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">Community-Discuss mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net" href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</a><br clear="none"> </div> </blockquote></div>