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SIMs to leaflets: Sudanese find ways to skirt network outage

Phones are dodgy, mobiles are dead and the internet is frozen.

But the blackout imposed after last week’s military takeover is not stopping Sudanese citizens from talking to each other and the outside world, using international SIM cards, relatives and the wider diaspora to relay critical information.

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