{"id":14148,"date":"2024-02-12T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=14148"},"modified":"2024-02-12T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:50:15","slug":"un-communications-outages-hamper-the-humanitarian-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/un-communications-outages-hamper-the-humanitarian-response\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Communications Outages Hamper the Humanitarian Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Khartoum &#8211; Sudan Events\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">UN Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths said that communications outages in Sudan prevent people from accessing basic services and transferring money, and hamper the humanitarian response.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This is unacceptable.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I urge all concerned to immediately restore Sudan&#8217;s communications network.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bloomberg had published news on the Rapid Support Forces RSF using the Starlink Internet service since August.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Rapid Support Forces RSF have had access to Starlink technology since August, according to diplomats and a humanitarian official in the Darfur region, one of whom was in contact with the Rapid Support Forces RSF while using the service.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The devices have proliferated since the Internet blackout in Sudan more than a week ago, and are being imported through corridors controlled by the Rapid Support Forces\u00a0 RSF through neighboring Chad and South Sudan, the people said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Videos and photos of RSF soldiers using this technology have been widely shared on social media in recent days.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum &#8211; Sudan Events\u00a0 UN Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths said that communications outages in Sudan prevent people from accessing basic services and transferring money, and hamper the humanitarian response. This is unacceptable. I urge all concerned to immediately restore Sudan&#8217;s communications network. Bloomberg had published news on the Rapid Support Forces RSF using the Starlink &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14150,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions\/14150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}