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| Sep 10, 2026 | Sudan: Bankak Outages Disrupt Sudan's Digital Payments and Markets | Khartoum — Intermittent outages affecting Bankak, an app offered by the Bank of Khartoum, and other electronic payment services have disrupted financial transactions and market activity, increasing demand for cash, according to bankers and ... |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Sudan's 'Lion Cubs' - the Child Soldiers Going Viral On Tiktok | Amsterdam / Babanusa — Report by Sebastian Vandermeersch and Amgad Abdelgadir
A joint investigation by Radio Dabanga and Bellingcat* has found that young boys, widely referred to as "lion cubs," have become celebrated figures with... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Sudan: Six-Month Jail Term Over Facebook Post Sparks Outrage in Sudan | El Gedaref — A court in El Gedaref has sentenced Resistance Committees member Ayman Hariri to six months in prison and fined him 2,000,000 SDG over a Facebook post yesterday, triggering widespread condemnation from political figures, lawyer... |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Sudan to Block WhatsApp Calls Citing Security Concerns | Khartoum — Sudan's Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Authority has announced a nationwide block on voice and video calls via WhatsApp, effective Friday, 25 July, citing national security concerns. The authority said the move is a ... |
| Jul 20, 2025 | Sudan: Digital War and Violence Against Women On the Rise | By Malak Bala of the Women's Media Network for Sudan Media Forum
Since the outbreak of war in Sudan on April 15, 2023, women of all backgrounds have faced increasing challenges and multiple violations, most notably the spread of system... |
| May 5, 2025 | Sudan: As the World Celebrates Artificial Intelligence, Sudanese Journalism Loses Memory in War | Khartoum — As the world moves towards the adoption of artificial intelligence and its applications in various fields, including the development of journalistic work, the Sudanese press is facing a different and tragic reality. The country o... |
| Oct 19, 2024 | Cyber Warfare: The Rise of Anonymous Sudan and Its Impact on Global Security | In the digital age, the battlefield has shifted. No longer confined to physical borders, warfare now plays out in cyberspace. The recent indictment of two Sudanese nationals for orchestrating a series of cyberattacks underlines this shift. ... |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Sudan: Two Sudanese Nationals Charged in U.S. Cyber-Attack Operation | Los Angeles — Two Sudanese citizens have been charged with leading Anonymous Sudan, a cybercriminal group behind tens of thousands of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks exploit vulnerable networks, often for financia... |
| Jul 23, 2024 | Sudan War - Telecom Tower in Khartoum Bombed? | Khartoum / Amsterdam — Social media sites posted contradictory videos on 'the burning of the communications tower' at the Blue Nile in El Manshiya neighbourhood in north-eastern Khartoum on Saturday afternoon. Many said the tower ... |
| Jun 19, 2024 | Sudan: North Kordofan Sees Fragile Calm Amidst Network Restoration | Um Rawaba — The city of Um Rawaba in North Kordofan state experienced a tentative calm after recent armed clashes, with the return of the Zain Communications network on Monday marking a crucial development. However, sources told Radio Daban... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Sudan: 'Internet Blackout Hobbles Aid to Thrice-Displaced Khartoum Families' | Jebel Aulia — The ongoing internet and communications blackouts in most of Sudan have severely compromised efforts to provide humanitarian aid to civilians in Jebel Aulia, south of the capital Khartoum. The Jebel Aulia Emergency Room has ap... |
| Feb 19, 2024 | Sudan: Communications Blackout Continues in Large Parts of Sudan | Port Sudan — The total telecommunications and internet blackout continues in Khartoum, El Gezira, Blue Nile region and other parts of Sudan. The outages are causing a severe cash crisis in the country. The managing director of Zain Sudan co... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | Sudan: Communications Blackout - El Sudani Network Restored | Port Sudan — El Sudani announced the gradual restoration of telecommunication and internet networks "to all cities of Sudan without exception" yesterday. The Sudatel terrestrial fibre optic network was also reportedly restored in ... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Sudan: Satellite Internet Surges in Sudan | Nyala — Intermittent, unreliable, and non-existent internet and communication connections, that have plagued Sudan and Darfur since the outbreak of the war, have prompted a proliferation of Starlink satellite receivers across Sudan, after t... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Sudan: RSF Denies Being Behind Communication Blackout in Sudan | Port Sudan / Khartoum — Zain's telecommunications and Internet service returned for a short while to Port Sudan yesterday evening after a day-long outage, while Sudani and MTN continued to be cut across the country for the third day.
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| Feb 5, 2024 | Sudan Communications Blackout Widens Amid Accusations | Port Sudan — The El Sudani and MTN telecommunication and Internet networks continued to be cut off across the country for the second day yesterday. Nearly two thirds of the country's population is currently unreachable. Zain network we... |
| Feb 4, 2024 | Sudan: Phone, Internet Falters in Eastern Sudan | El Gezira / Sennar — Subscribers to El Sudani and MTN communication and internet providers complain service interruptions in El Gezira, Sennar, and large parts of eastern Sudan since Friday morning. Both providers cite 'technical reaso... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Sudan: RSF Seize Sudan Telecoms, Data Safety in Question | Khartoum — The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced yesterday it took control of the database centre of Sudatel (Sudan Telecommunications Group), raising many questions regarding the threat to sensitive information stored in the facility.
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| Dec 1, 2023 | Sudan: War Plunges South Darfur Communications Into 'Medieval Abyss' | Nyala — A complete breakdown in mobile phone and internet connections that has plagued Nyala, capital of South Darfur and Sudan's second-largest city, since the early days of the war that broke out in April this year, has "plunged... |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Sudan Conflict - RSF and Hemedti's Wings Clipped On Facebook 'For Violating the Policy of Dangerous Organisations and Individuals' | Menlo Park, California — Facebook's owner Meta has removed the official pages of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and its leader Lt Gen Mohamed 'Hemedti' Dagalo, as well as other accounts related to the paramilitary formation ... |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Time to Try Again to End Sudan’s War | Sudan’s calamitous three-month war may be entering a critical new phase. In recent weeks, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has further entrenched its superior position in the capital, Khartoum, and intensified a siege of the head... |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Sudan: The Apps That Aid Solidarity Among Sudanese | Khartoum — Despite more than two months of suffering, the war has highlighted the great solidarity amongst Sudanese people through countless initiatives aimed at mitigating the humanitarian catastrophe and helping internally displaced peopl... |
| Jun 11, 2023 | Sudan: Satellite 'Observatory' to Monitor Sudan Conflict | Washington D.C. / Jeddah / Khartoum — The US Department of State officially launched Sudan Conflict Observatory platform, a remote monitoring platform "to provide independent, expert reporting on conflict activity in Sudan". It is... |
| May 23, 2023 | Sudan: Communication Problems in Darfur As Clashes Continue | El Geneina / Zalingei / Nyala — EL GENEINA / ZALINGEI / NYALA - May 23, 2023
Communication is difficult in many parts of Darfur as communication infrastructure has been damaged in clashes. A complete communication blackout has cut West Darf... |
| May 16, 2023 | Silencing dissent: Journalists in Sudan face threats, raids | When Mohi el-deen Jibril checked his phone on May 11, he saw his name on a list of people accused of betraying the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Instantly, he thought of leaving his ... |
| May 12, 2023 | Sudan: Khartoum Witnesses Calm After Fierce Fighting, New Internet Breakdown | Khartoum North — After fierce battles on Wednesday, in particular in the northern part of the Sudanese capital, large parts of Khartoum witnessed relative calm yesterday morning. NetBlocks reported that only four per cent of the internet ca... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Demonstrators brace for violence ahead of Sudan protest march | Khartoum, Sudan – Security forces have stepped up a crackdown in recent days to deter protesters from taking part in a major march on Tuesday, activists and analysts say.
Demonstrators plan to demand full civilian rule one year after a mili... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Sudan coup leader bids to co-opt pro-democracy movement | Nearly a year after backing a coup in Sudan, the feared paramilitary leader Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo is trying to sell himself as a useful partner for the pro-democracy groups that have been regularly protesting against the country’s military ... |
| Jul 21, 2022 | Sudan: Junta Clampdown Bans Anonymous Mobile SIM Cards | Khartoum — The ruling military junta in Sudan has directed all telecommunications providers in the country to immediately stop issuing mobile phone sim cards that are not registered to a person's identity. Technical Committee of the Se... |
| Jul 7, 2021 | Scientists Discover Thousands of Ancient Tombs In Galaxy-Like Patterns | ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs.
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In the vast and spectacular landscape of eastern Sudan, tombs deposited across generations have created enormous patter... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Sudan in 2021: A Human Rights-First Road Map for the Biden Administration | In December 2020, Sudan’s transitional government celebrated the official removal of the country from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list, nearly two decades after its initial inclusion. Sudan’s delisting—accompanied by a bridge loan ... |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands Threatened with Deportation to War-Torn Sudan | Ahmed* was 17 when he decided that there was no future for him in Darfur, the region in western Sudan infamous for its long-running ethnic violence and a genocide that claimed the lives of around 300,000 people and forced 2.7 million from t... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | Why Health Workers In Sudan Have Been Leaving Their Posts Amid Covid-19 | Volunteer pharmacists work at a small treatment center set up in northern Khartoum on June 18, 2020, ... [+] amid an acute shortage of medicine as Sudan fights to control the spread of Covid-19. (Photo by Ashraf Shazly)AFP via Getty Images |
| Nov 1, 2019 | A Constitutional Moment in Sudan | Over the past 10 months, Sudan has been rocked by a historic revolution. The popular uprising has overcome institutional obstacles and fears of political violence—made all the more real by the ongoing aftermath of the Arab Spring—to depose ... |
| Sudanese security forces embark on abduction spree of protesters | Khartoum, Sudan – On February 7, Joun Ali and his relatives were woken from sleep at dusk by a squad of security forces who had stormed their home.
They were looking for his older brother Mohamad, a respected activist from Omdurman, the lar... |
| Sudan’s latest coup is crippling its frail health sector | Khartoum, Sudan – At Ibrahim Malek hospital in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, anaesthetics are in such short supply that patients sometimes wake up while still on the operating table.
Staff say they have stopped receiving medical supplies from t... |
| Sudan: Russian influence and Ukraine war stir domestic tensions | Khartoum, Sudan – On February 23, the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a group of Sudanese officials landed in Moscow.
The delegation was led by Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo – aka Hemeti – who is the deputy chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Counci... |
