Internet access was switched off across Sudan amid deadly riots sparked by
fuel price hikes in which six people were reported killed on Wednesday.
The abrupt loss of internet connectivity was suspected to be the work of
authorities trying to suppress the use of social media to organise protests.
The United States urged all sides to refrain from violence as the riots
stretched into a third day. Cars were torched and security forces fired tear
gas as protesters chanted slogans against the regime of President Omar
al-Bashir.
The protests, spreading from the agricultural belt south of Khartoum to the
capital and to the Darfur region in the west, erupted after the government
suspended fuel subsidies resulting in steep price rises.
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