BBC. The communications blackout felt ‘suffocating’, says Mohamed, as he was unable to get out news of what was happening in El-Fasher. Credit: Mohamed Suleiman
While trapped in the besieged city of El-Fasher for 18 months, journalist and academic Mohamed Suleiman was unable to convey fully the horrors he was witnessing, call for help or warn others of dangers due to a communications blackout. After the city fell in October, he made his way to the relative safety of Port Sudan, where for the first time in almost three years he was able to get signal on his mobile phone, only to be inundated with an inventory of loss.
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