Renesys Corp confirms that Sudan have been cut off from the Internet d

Renesys Corp confirms that Sudan have been cut off from the Internet due to the protests
Khartoum-Internet Intelligence Corporation Renesys confirmed on Monday that Sudan have been cut off from the Internet as demonstrations against the government's decision to lift fuel subsidies entered their third day in the capital and other cities across the country.
"If confirmed to be government-directed, this outage would be the largest government-directed Internet blackout since Egypt in January 2011," says Doug Madory at Renesys. While they have previously seen large Internet outages in Sudan, those typically appeared to have been due to brief technical problems. But today's Internet blackout appears similar to another outage earlier in the summer that was reported to be government-directed ahead of a large protest.
Renesys Corp., a company that maps the pathways of the Internet, said it could not confirm whether the blackout was government-orchestrated. But the outage recalls a similarly dramatic outage in Egypt, Sudan's neighbor, when authorities shut off Internet access during that country's 2011 uprising.
"It's either a government-directed thing or some very catastrophic technological failure that just happens to coincide with violent riots happening in the city," said senior analyst Doug Madory. He said it was almost a "total blackout."

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