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Business Matters: Sudan's military shuts down the internet

Sudan's military shuts down the internet

22/06/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Sudan's military shuts down the internet

Sudan's military has shut down the internet in an attempt to crush a revolt

Sudan's military has shut down the internet in an attempt to crush a revolt. There have been protests in Berlin and Sudan.

Following months of political turmoil in Sudan and demonstrations of varying sizes, action by the Sudanese military means that the country has effectively been offline since the 3rd of June as Tomi Oladipo reports from Khartoum. The Trump administration shows no sign of backing down in the continung tit-for-tat tariff war between the United States and China. We hear from Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace on American Public Media. Sunday is another big political day for Turkey with the people of Istanbul going to the polls to choose their mayor for the second time in four months; the BBC's Ed Butler reports from Istanbul. Friday was International Yoga Day and the yoga industry is now a multi-billion dollar business as the BBC's Tamasin Ford has been finding out. Plus,Lightsail 2 is a spacecraft with a difference - first off it's crowd-funded as Jennifer Vaughan of the Planetary Society explains.

And joining us throughout the programme are Alison van Diggelen, host of freshdialogues.com - she's in Silicon Valley and Liz Gwynn of Prime7 News is in New South Wales, Australia.

Photo description: In Berlin, an activist dressed in traditional Saudi garb holds a cardboard saw with "blood money" inscribed on it during a protest against Sudan's Transitional Military Council
Photo credit: JOHN MACDOUGALL/Getty Images

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