War-torn country Sudan shut down Internet access for all its citizens yesterday.
Renesys a company that, among other things, monitors traffic flows on the Internet, wrote in a blog post yesterday that it is the largest international disruption in Internet traffic since Egypt did a similar thing in the February Revolution of 2011.
The reason why the Internet has been shut down by the Sudanese authorities are the riots that occurred after the government has announced that it will remove subsidies on fuels such as gasoline. This has led to widespread riots and at least six persons have been killed in these. Twitter and other online services has been used by protest groups to coordinate their protests, and it is this possibility authorities now believe they have blocked.
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