TL;DR - there's a revolution/mass protest/riot going on across the country (9th largest country of the world by land area and an oil/gas exporting autocracy). Several cities (including the old capital) have already fallen to the protestors.

HN relevance: two years ago the government tried to MITM the whole population [0]. Looks like it failed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20472179