Hi Brian, The Burundians we are a little worried about belong to a group that call themselves Yaga Burundi @YBurundi on Twitter with blog at http://www.yaga-burundi.com/
An article in Le Monde gave them a pretty high profile just before Nkurunziza came back http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2015/05/14/au-burundi-la-tentative-de-coup-d-etat-en-direct-avec-les-blogueurs-de-yaga-burundi_4633538_3212.html#CJSoKA175JojfRed.99 Le 18/05/2015 16:23, Brian Conley a écrit : > > The Burundians I am in contact with have not mentioned a new internet > issue since blocking of whatsapp and facebook which was easily > circumvented with the use of VPNs. > > I last heard from my colleagues about 8 hours ago. At least one of > them was tweeting an hour ago. > > There is definitely a climate of fear at the moment and a lack of > access to basic necessities in communities with large populations of > opposition to Nkurunziza. > > On May 18, 2015 7:19 AM, "Richard Brooks" <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>. >
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