Zimbabwe: Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter Back After Week-Long Zim Blackout

21 January 2019

SOCIAL media sites have finally been restored in Zimbabwe following a week-long government blackout which drew out a high court challenge and a subsequent Monday ruling declaring the freeze illegal.

Government switched off popular micro blogging sites - Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter - following deadly national protests that coincided with a job stay away called by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and associated social movements.

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