Ethiopia turns off internet nationwide as students sit exams

Ethiopia June 1: Ethiopia said it had deactivated its internet services on Tuesday at the same time as more than a million year 10 students sat their national exams.

Google's transparency report registered a sharp drop in national visits to the search engine, coinciding with the lead-up to the nation's year 10 and 12 school and university exams.

It's the second time in recent months that Africa's second most populous country has turned off its mobile data service, which most businesses and consumers rely on for internet access.

According to the reportsIn July 2016, the government shut down access to Facebook, Twitter, and Viber after university entrance exam questions were leaked online

While the Ethiopian govt had admitted to temporarily disabling internet services, it offered no specific explanation for the countrywide outage.