In this article, we analyse an important decision by the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the Court or CCJ), which found that Nigeria’s seven-month suspension of Twitter violated the right to freedom of expression of the applicants and Twitter’s other users in Nigeria. We also showcase a handful of domestic proceedings from across the African continent in which telecommunications companies were sued alongside State agencies for their roles in implementing internet shutdowns or targeted service bans that adversely affected human rights.

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