In Sudan, internet users find ways to beat blackout
Friends access internet at a cafe in an upscale Khartoum district in Sudan on June 17, 2019. Internet on mobile phones and fixed land connections has been widely cut across Sudan. PHOTO | YASUYOSHI CHIBA | AFP
In a lush garden cafe in Sudan's capital, a group of youngsters sit eyes glued to mobile phone screens, seeking ways to bypass an internet blackout imposed by army rulers.
"It's as if we have gone back in time -- we are cut off from everything, even from the outside world," said Mohamed Omar, 25, sitting around a wooden table with his friends at the cafe in an upscale Khartoum district.
