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Figure 45: Akamai Traffic to Syria, multiple days in June 2016<br />
10.2 Syria / Similar to the previous quarter, war-torn Syria suffered<br />
multiple Internet disruptions in the second quarter. As depicted in<br />
Figure 44 and Figure 45, Akamai saw numerous anomalous drops in<br />
traffic to Syria throughout the month of June. On June 4, at around<br />
4:45 p.m. utc, traffic suddenly dropped to less than 40% of previous<br />
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provider, reported the issue was caused by a “glitch” in one of the<br />
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Figure 46: Akamai Traffic to Kenya, June 7, 2016<br />
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