Palestinian students use their phones to access the internet at a cafe, following a nation-wide mobile internet blackout, in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on June 17, 2019. - Internet on mobile phones and fixed land connections has been widely cut across Sudan since the violent dispersal of a protest camp outside army headquarters on June 3 that left dozens dead and hundreds wounded. The ruling military council imposed the blackout to prevent further mobilisation of protesters, according to users. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
KHARTOUM: In a lush garden café 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 café in an upscale Khartoum district.
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