It was a short-lived euphoria, and a rude awakening for one of the young startup champions, Samrawit Fikru, founder and CEO of the ride-hailing application RIDE, to discover she could not provide her celebrated service to her customers.


As the International Telecommunications Union was announcing it has accepted Ethiopia's request to host the World Telecommunications Development Conference in 2021, the country went offline. Internet connection, messaging services like Telegram and - unusually even for Ethiopia - SMS text messages were shutdown for sev...






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