i'm christine windell welcome to news africa i'm glad you're cheated and internet censorship is on the rise in africa with many governments increasingly controlling the web in order to quote descents this often results to people in those countries not having access to information all the outside world some of the more recent examples are in zimbabwe sudan and the democratic republic of congo way and she government protests and in elections they have restricted internet axis so what are some of the ways that this is being done for a ts can i the throttle the band with with makes it impossible to share photos and videos sometimes avoids he's broke access to social media sites like facebook and twitter or in extreme cases they completely shut down the internet like what we saw in zimbabwe last month during protests there not civil group. in zimbabwe legal challenge the internet shut down cheering those protests and then a courtroom that the government had acted unconstitutionally human rights groups were among those championing the fight against the shutdown let's hear from one of them. w