{"id":294544,"date":"2025-10-01T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/?p=105159"},"modified":"2025-10-01T23:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:38:50","slug":"taliban-telecoms-blackout-plunges-afghanistan-into-digital-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=294544","title":{"rendered":"Taliban telecoms blackout plunges Afghanistan into digital darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban has imposed a nationwide telecoms blackout across Afghanistan, a move slammed by human rights organisations as causing severe harm to people&#8217;s fundamental rights, safety, and livelihoods. The blackout \u2013 which was rolled out throughout September \u2013 has crippled access to healthcare, education, commerce, and media, effectively cutting the nation off from the outside<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/news\/taliban-telecoms-blackout-afghanistan-digital-darkness\/\" title=\"ReadTaliban telecoms blackout plunges Afghanistan into digital darkness\">&#8230; Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/news\/taliban-telecoms-blackout-afghanistan-digital-darkness\/\">Taliban telecoms blackout plunges Afghanistan into digital darkness<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/\">Telecoms Tech News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban has imposed a nationwide telecoms blackout across Afghanistan, a move slammed by human rights organisations as causing severe harm to people&#8217;s fundamental rights, safety, and livelihoods. The blackout \u2013 which was rolled out throughout&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5034,1597,18335,5075,4420,1633,18336,5030,5042,8857,5044,5930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-afghanistan","category-blackout","category-broadband","category-connectivity","category-government","category-human-rights","category-internet","category-networks","category-taliban","category-telecoms","category-united-nations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294545,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294544\/revisions\/294545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}