>From an informed acquaintance talking with people on the ground: "No local journalists are allowed to cover the demonstrations and foreign journalists have now too been banned from covering demonstrations "for their own safety".
This isn't a West Africa thing, but we see the same patterns repeating themselves all over Francophone Africa. What is really new, whether in Togo, Burundi or DR Congo is how well the regimes have learnt to effectively block online news sites and social media applications whenever there is an election in the air." On 05/19/2015 01:00 PM, Brian Conley wrote: > Yep, but they aren't technically offline. Yaga Burundi for example may > not be posting regularly on their site, but they are coordinating online > and members are posting via twitter and other means. > > With today's announcement that the President will not seek revenge but > only prosecute those involved the coup, individuals are cautiously > hopeful, but we'll see what happens next. > > Also, I don't believe all those social media are still blocked, or > perhaps they were unblocked during the coup and reblocked. > > Brian > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Eric S Johnson <cra...@oneotaslopes.org > <mailto:cra...@oneotaslopes.org>> wrote: > > From a Burundi friend: > > “Bloggers are off line because of their physical security. On police > checkpoints they check phones, laptop,... > Police monitor what people are writing now. > Many well-known bloggers fled the country or are hidden for their > security. > 4 private media have been burnt and other forced to close! > I myself didn't reach Burundi. I am in Kigali. > Not imprisonment until now. > social media such as Face book, whatsapp, viber are blocked. People use > VPN” > > > > On May 18, 2015 7:19 AM, "Richard Brooks" <r...@g.clemson.edu > <mailto:r...@g.clemson.edu> > <mailto:r...@g.clemson.edu <mailto:r...@g.clemson.edu>> > wrote: > > We have noticed that Burundi bloggers are off-line. No > doubt related to the President's crack down after the > failed coup. > > Does anyone have any news as to whether this silence is > due to: > -Internet blackout? > -Physical threat/imprisonment? > -Fear? > > > > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing > moderator at compa...@stanford.edu <mailto:compa...@stanford.edu>. > > > > > -- > > > > Brian Conley > > Co-founder, Small World News > > http://smallworldnews.tv <http://smallworldnews.tv/> > > m: 646.285.2046 > > Skype: brianjoelconley > > > > -- =================== R. R. Brooks Professor Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Clemson University 313-C Riggs Hall PO Box 340915 Clemson, SC 29634-0915 USA Tel. 864-656-0920 Fax. 864-656-5910 email: r...@acm.org web: http://www.clemson.edu/~rrb PGP: 48EC1E30 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
