Uganda has declared that it remained on red alert as it switched on the internet after it had shut it down on January 13. Spokesman for the East African country, Ofwono Opondo, who declared this in an interview, gave reason for the shutting down of internet during the elections. The model was adopted, according to him, “fearing that it (the internet) would be used to spread messages of hate and violence amid the country’s general elections held on Jan. 14.” He told Xinhua by telephone that the internet had…
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