SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Sudan internet cuts complicate civil disobedience campaign against coup

8/11/2021: Reuters - Sudan internet cuts complicate civil disobedience campaign against coup

Reuters report that local "resistance committees" and the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which led demonstrations in the uprising that toppled then-president Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, launched two days of civil disobedience and strikes in protest against the military coup, though participation appeared to be limited by continuing interruptions to internet and phone connections.

A number of people did not know about the call for civil disobedience because of the internet cut," said one resident in central Khartoum who asked not to be named. Internet services have been badly disrupted since the Oct. 25 coup, and phone coverage remains patchy.