National shutdown
Internet Services
The entire country of Sudan has now been without Internet for 13 days. The government has shut down all mobile Internet and most of the hard-wired connections in the country in an effort to smother pro-democracy protests. NPR's Eyder Peralta reports that amid a faltering revolution, lack of Internet has changed life in little and big ways.
Local impact
The entire country of Sudan has now been without Internet for 13 days. The government has shut down all mobile Internet and most of the hard-wired connections in the country in an effort to smother pro-democracy protests. NPR's Eyder Peralta reports that amid a faltering revolution, lack of Internet has changed life in little and big ways.
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Sudan hasn’t had internet in over 72 hours while its people have been getting beat, raped, and murdered for protesting. copy. paste. tweet.#IAmTheSudanRevolution#IAmTheSudanRevolution #IAmTheSudanRevolution — Team Pachedu (@PacheduZW) June 9, 2019
THERE’S A COMPLETE & TOTAL INTERNET BLACKOUT HAPPENING IN SUDAN RIGHT NOW! This is a deliberate effort for trying to silence this revolution. People have resorted to nationwide civil disobedience. We need to do everything in our capacity to ECHO the screams of the Sudanese people — Khadega Mohammed (@TheKhadegaMo) June 11, 2019
Urgent: #Sudan's last remaining internet connections are now being cut, constituting a near-total blackout amid reports of severe atrocities in #Darfur; Sudatel currently largely offline #Internet_Blackout_In_Sudan #KeepItOn 📉https://t.co/iYf1beSv2n pic.twitter.com/Alq5l8IKfG — NetBlocks (@netblocks) June 10, 2019
#Sudan’s ongoing internet shutdown is a gross violation of human rights and should be lifted immediately https://t.co/9Zho4thXcj pic.twitter.com/8y6whzZwTC — Human Rights Watch (@hrw) June 13, 2019
Sudan has emerged from a government-imposed internet blackout, and harrowing unseen videos of violations against unarmed civilians have surfaced. Our report for @Channel4News - produced by @sally_gould - with the latest.https://t.co/OwRFrk9DdA pic.twitter.com/eztxSA1zAg — Yousra Elbagir (@YousraElbagir) July 10, 2019
There is currently an internet blackout in Sudan -500 killed -723 injured -650 arrested -48 women raped -6 men raped -1000 missing Copy/paste this tweet or RT to spread awareness, stop it being suppressed and save lives.#SudanMassacre#BlueforSudan pic.twitter.com/6TOKGT08O9 — Makomborero Haruzivishe (@MakomboreroH) June 13, 2019
With the complete Internet shutdown in #Sudan, a lot of us are unaware of the ongoing massacre. It's a fight between humanity and the evil. Pleading all the media outlets for more articles and news segments regarding the above. The world needs to know. 🙏#SudanMassacre pic.twitter.com/eELBWBlsgY — Aysha Khan (@eysha02) June 13, 2019
#PrayForSudan This video explains what’s happening in Sudan. Sudan is in complete internet blackout to hide the massacre. Be their voice and spread the awareness. #BlueforSudan pic.twitter.com/UJNNjoxj2Q — Mohamed Abdulwahab (@MohamedAbdulwa) June 14, 2019
جمعت أكبر كمية من الفيديوهات البتثبت وحشية ميليشيات الدعم السريع وحأنزل كل تويتة من المصدر بتاعها مراعاة لحقوقه. سبحان الله كنت قبل فترة كتبت ثريد عن موقف الدعم السريع من الحِراك وتوقعي طلع في محلو. #Internet_Blockout_in_Sudan#مجزره_القياده_العامه pic.twitter.com/ceDa6XM4lC — toni 托尼 (@toni_6ahir) June 4, 2019
This is way bigger than April 6th. Not just the amount of people on the streets, but the fact that this whole millyoniya was organised without internet access.#القصر_حتى_النصر #مليونه30يونيو#SudanMassacre#Internet_blackout_in_Sudan #StandWithSudan pic.twitter.com/i9ORhBy2jq — Assim Abdelmagid (@AssimMagid) June 30, 2019
Other supporting information
On June 3, Internet connectivity in Sudan was disrupted in conjunction with attacks on protestors – the protests were related to the transition of power after the removal of Omar al-Bashir as Sudan’s president in April. The figure below shows drops in all three metrics measured by Oracle Internet Intelligence occurring around noon GMT.

Three weeks later, the Internet was restored… but only for a single lawyer that had filed a lawsuit against telecommunications provider Zain Sudan over the disruption ordered by Sudan’s military rulers. However, on July 9, local telecommunications providers were ordered to restore Internet service. This service restoration can be seen in the figure below, with increases in both the traceroute and BGP-based metrics.
