Equatorial Guinea enforces yearlong internet outage for island that protested construction company

LAGOS, Nigeria: When residents of Equatorial Guinea’s Annobon 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.

Dozens of the signatories and residents were imprisoned for nearly a year, while internet access to the small island has been cut off since then, according to several residents and rights groups.