Sudan: Widespread Internet Outage

Khartoum – Sudan Events 

Since Friday evening, internet and communication networks have been disrupted across most of Sudan. The cause of the outage remains unclear, with accusations flying between the Sudanese government and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The RSF, controlling areas where major infrastructure for Sudani and MTN-Sudan network operations reside, reportedly disrupted the network to protest the companies’ inaction on a communication issue affecting Darfur for months.
An RSF official, however, denied responsibility for the outage, instead pointing the finger at the army. He linked the current shutdown to ongoing military operations. The official further accused the army of issuing direct orders to sever communication in parts of Darfur, Kordofan, Khartoum, and Al-Jazirah states for months.
While both Sudani and MTN face complete service disruptions, Zain remains partially operational in some areas, leaving the reason for this inconsistency unexplained. Zain was disrupted in Port Sudan on Sunday evening, but it was restored on Monday morning.
Digital Rights Lab – Sudan, a watchdog organization, claims sources confirmed the RSF taking over data centres of internet service providers (ISPs) in Khartoum.