Coupure au niveau national
Sudan cut off Internet access for the third consecutive year as students took their national exams. Mobile operator Zain Sudan notified its customers of the disruption, and data compiled by Cloudflare showed national traffic dipping from 08:00 to 11:00 local time (UTC +2) on each exam day. Following this shutdown, the government again blocked Internet services at the end of the month, 30 June, as protesters marked the first anniversary of the military coup that derailed the country’s transition to civilian rule.
Impact local
Le Soudan a coupé l'accès à l'internet pour la troisième année consécutive, alors que les étudiants passaient leurs examens nationaux. L'opérateur de téléphonie mobile Zain Sudan a informé ses clients de cette interruption, et les données compilées par Cloudflare ont montré que le trafic national chutait de 8 heures à 11 heures, heure locale (UTC +2), chaque jour d'examen. Après cette interruption, le gouvernement a de nouveau bloqué les services Internet à la fin du mois, le 30 juin, alors que les manifestants célébraient le premier anniversaire du coup d'État militaire qui a fait dérailler la transition du pays vers un régime civil.
Autres informations à l’appui
Cloudflare Radar montre une baisse du trafic Internet au Soudan pendant les quatre premiers jours de la période d'examen.
Le rapport de transparence de Google fait état d'une baisse similaire du trafic vers ses services au cours de ces journées.
Réseaux sociaux
#Internet services will be cut off throughout #Sudan during the secondary certificate #exams, for a period of three hours per day. pic.twitter.com/g2JQFyf9aV
— Enass Muzamel (@EnassMuzamel2) June 10, 2022
أعزاءنا المُشتركين، تنفيذاً لقرار النائب العام سيتم إيقاف خدمة الإنترنت خلال جلسات امتحانات الشهادة السودانية .
— ZainSudan (@ZainSudan) June 10, 2022
تمنياتنا بالتوفيق للطُلاب المُمتحنين .#زين_السُودان pic.twitter.com/LoO3XtOPid
Multiple exam-related Internet disruptions this week:
— Cloudflare Radar (@CloudflareRadar) June 13, 2022
- Sudan saw third consecutive daily shutdown.
- Next shutdown in Syria expected tomorrow.
- Algeria not implementing full shutdowns this year. However, network-level graphs indicate minor disruption between 0700-1000 UTC. pic.twitter.com/wdTRAeq8XL
Authorities in Sudan have announced that they plan on shutting down the internet during exam hours for 11 days, starting tomorrow. #KeepItOn #NoExamShutDown
— Access Now (@accessnow) June 10, 2022
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#Sudan switches off #internet during exam hours for 11 days so as to 'combat cheating' in the Secondary Certificate Exams. The exams started on June 11 and will run until June 22. Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Syria have also previously deployed similar blackouts during national exams pic.twitter.com/KQOXfLjlF2
— The Observer (@observerug) June 13, 2022
