Sudan says cyber campaigning for anti-government protests done from abroad
February 1, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan has downplayed the magnitude of anti-government protests that erupted on Sunday, saying that most of those involved in online campaigning for the action are based outside the country.
The protests were violently suppressed by Sudan’s anti-riot police using batons and teargas.
Sudan’s official news agency SUNA on Tuesday quoted Mandur Al-Mahdi, a senior official in the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), as saying that the government’s monitoring of Facebook-based pages created to galvanize support for the protests had found that “85% of the messages there are sent from outside the country.”
Al-Mahdi went on to break down the figures as follow: 800 messages from Norway, 4000 from each of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates and 700 messages from the United Kingdom.
Al-Mahdi claimed that the total number of people who took to the streets did not exceed 600 at best estimates, adding that the government does not these “bogus” cyber movements to paint Sudan’s picture.
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Ajok Garang
Sudan says cyber campaigning for anti-government protests done from abroad
Protest is done to a president who has become aristocratic in nature ,and the citizens alway demand for a change of Government , i think those who need to carry out the protest are not outside the country ,they are there within Khartoum and the system of government in Khartoum does not make the masses happy at all ,i wish you all well in Khartoum and nobody is allowed to come to southern sudan for refugee if thing go bad there .
Ajok Garang Ajok .
Tambura
Sudan says cyber campaigning for anti-government protests done from abroad
Norway 800 people wow how come? There is no many Sudanese in Norway as they are in England. Who support uprising in Sudan while he/she abroad thats sucks. I don’t think southerns in Norway can do that for one reason many of them now like Omar to be president until next July when south Sudan will be officially independent after that they don’t care if there will be uprising in North or not. Northern have all right to fight for their right but sitting aboard and want somebody else to take bullet for you thats what I don’t like about those fake arabs. How they think? You want to follow your masters Egyptian and Tunisian footstep they did it inside. Be a man go down there and do it.
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