Full Analysis Summary
Starlink in Sudan
The arrival of Starlink satellite internet in late 2023 partially restored communications but the report emphasizes severe limits and high cost.
El Bashar said he found Starlink in Ed Daein for SDG 3,000 (approx. USD 1) per hour, which he called exorbitant.
Tariq Makki said early service concentrated at a few points produced long queues.
Mahdi El Azeeb said Starlink remains expensive, location-dependent and impractical for mobile reporting.
Citizen Hafiz El Sayir said Starlink lets him call his children and that calls cost no more than SDG 1,000 per day, which differs from El Bashar's SDG 3,000 per hour claim.
Merchant Karam El Din Sharif said cross-border trade continued almost normally thanks to Starlink.
The report concludes, through activists and journalists quoted, that temporary satellite networks do not constitute a radical solution and that providing stable communications across Darfur and Kordofan has become an urgent necessity.