Yes Olu, internet services were being restricted for the national election. They were restored on the 7th of October.
On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 9:03:22 PM UTC+3 Olu wrote: > So far, I have checked internally for any information to confirm that > indeed Google Services to Tanzania are blocked, perhaps for reasons of > national elections. I have not seen any information to confirm this, I can > keep checking but then, I hope you are aware that generally, SSL Handshake > Exceptions can be returned for several reasons such as network errors, > network configuration issues, connectivity, firewalls, server is down, etc. > On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 12:23:06 PM UTC-4 arnold...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> it appears social networking services have been blocked in the country, >> so twitter, youtube, instagram, etc are not reachable. Some googles >> services like news.google.com, issuetracker.google.com seem to have been >> affected also. It is said it has to do with national elections that are >> underway on the 27th and 28th of October. >> On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 1:32:45 PM UTC+3 Arnold Minde wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> It appears access to subdomains of .appspot.com for users in Tanzania >>> using different network provides fail with "SSL handshake time out" error, >>> which affects our api access. >>> >>> For example: >>> https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/ >>> >>> Is anyone aware of whats happening? >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Arnold. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/6e85b429-c0f7-4160-b7e4-2ec2216886a2n%40googlegroups.com.