ASNs decimation in ZW this morning

Tue Jan 15 16:50:08 UTC 2019

sorry top posting,
yup whatsup doesnt work in harare.
phone circuits land ok though and checked ok

col

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> On 15 Jan 2019, at 15:42, C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:34 AM C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So @meileaben on twitter this morning notes:
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>> Many #Zimbabwe Internet routes withdrawn around 9:30 UTC amidst civil unrest in the country. near-realtime on #RIPEstat here: https://stat.ripe.net/ZW  #OpenNetworkIntelligence #ZimbabweShutdown
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>> https://twitter.com/meileaben/status/1085118237157851136
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>> wondering if anyone here has additional info on that.  Looing at stat.ripe.net/ZW now it looks as though one (out of an original 18, current 9) ASN has recovered, but kind of curious as to what exactly happened there. 
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> So Bloomberg notes that a number of ISPs were shut down to quell online protest
> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/by-killing-the-internet-zimbabwe-kills-commerce-and-the-lights but are there no work-arounds available, if implemented? 
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