African Island Demanding Government Action Punished with Year-Long Internet Outage

"When residents of Equatorial Guinea's Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a Moroccan construction company, they didn't expect the swift end to their internet access" reports the Associated Press. "Residents and activists said the company's dynamite explosions in open quarries and construction activities have been polluting their farmlands and water supply" Dozens of the signatories and resid...