Association of professionals or foreigners? The Sudanese revolution on the Internet

In our previous publication, we have already talked about a suspicious rise in activity in Sudanese social networks not long before the revolution. Today we will move forward on the subject.

It is widely known that the Sudanese revolution is being coordinated through social media. However, no activist has reliable information about the people who schedule and supervise the rallies.

The names of admins of these Facebook pages covering the protests are hidden and not mentioned anywhere on the web. However, an analysis of the pages shows that most of its admins and active users tend to live abroad, with comments being generated by bots (the comments are copied word by word).

Furthermore, admins of the major opposition forces live abroad, too. For instance, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) is almost exclusively managed by foreigners: Canadians, British, Americans, Germans and French. There is not a single Sudanese among the SPA main page’s admins. 

It is common to explain this phenomenon by saying that pages are managed by the Sudanese that left the country when the crisis broke out. However, no evidence of this exists. On the contrary, this theory seems doubtful. Because why else is money for the rallies being raised in the US rather than in Sudan?