“The shutdown is gone for keeping a rehash of releases that happened a year ago,” Mohammed Seid at the Office for Government Communications Affairs, told the Reuters news organization.

In 2016, the nation restricted access to web-based social networking locales after college selection tests were posted on the web.

Be that as it may, some have questioned this clarification.

“We are being proactive,” Mr Seid included, alluding to exams that are because of complete on 8 June.

“We need our understudies to focus and be free of the mental weight and diversions this brings.”

Mr Seid is accounted for to have said that lone online networking locales had been blocked, yet sources in Ethiopia told that there was broad web interruption, influencing both versatile systems and settled line web administrations.

A highly sensitive situation has been in actuality in Ethiopia since October, taking after hostile to government dissents.

Portable web get to has been crippled on different events as of late, including a time of half a month a year ago.

Preparatory information from Google recommended that there had in fact been a major drop in Ethiopian web movement to Google administrations since Wednesday evening.