There is still no definitive word on why Sudan’s internet was shut-down on Wednesday September 25th, 2013 amid protests after the Sudanese government lifted fuel subsidies. All signs point to a government shut-down.

Renesys Corp recently uploaded a visualization of January’s Egyptian Internet outage. In the description, the company wrote:
It [The video] shows the routed address space for each country, colored by reachability (at the routing/BGP level). Space in green is globally reachable, while space in red has had all …