Senior Policy Advisor - Africa, of the Internet Society, Verengai Mabika, on 10 April 2018, posted about Internet shutdowns¹ happening in Chad due to ongoing political unrests. In the report he mentions about the continuous disruptions of Internet and social media services since the 2^nd of April; although it is not the first occurrence in 2018. There were earlier reports of Internet shutdowns in Chad in January 2018 and also a much longer 8-months social media cutoff in 2016 during the elections.

Quartz² also reported the Internet shutdown in Chad, and in fact mentions disruptions since 28 March 2018.

In September last year I wrote about an Internet shutdown in Togo³ and the Anti-shutdown policy proposal⁴ under discussion within the AfriNIC community.