SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Washington Post - Sudan’s military has shut down the Internet to crush a popular revolt. Here’s how it could backfire

21/6/19: Washington Post – Sudan’s military has shut down the Internet to crush a popular revolt. Here’s how it could backfire, by Claire Parker

 Claire Parker argues that the internet blackout in Sudan might have the “paradoxical impact of fueling protests, especially since economic grievances sparked the uprising in the first place,” with a Sudanese newspaper estimating that the blackout would cost Sudan upward of $1 billion or nearly 1 percent of Sudan’s GDP.

 Parker states that the Sudanese internet blackout “represents a particularly severe application of [the] wider phenomenon” of government-initiated internet shutdowns in order to quell protest movements.