Hackers have attacked a Sudanese website close to the country’s powerful security apparatus, AFP learned on Friday, 11 July 2014.<\/p>\n
In a rare cyber-assault, the website of the Sudanese Media Centre (SMC) was inaccessible and instead carried a message that “this website has been hacked by the Border Guards”.<\/p>\n
It included a link, www.sudaht.com, to a page for “Sudan Hack Team”. Other than a photograph of riot policemen, the website had no further content and said a forum was under construction.<\/p>\n
SMC carries articles about political and security events in Sudan, an impoverished country ravaged by war in the Darfur region, South Kordofan and Blue Nile.<\/p>\n
Sudanese journalists regularly complain of censorship by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Service, which has also been accused of rights abuses.<\/p>\n
SMC’s hackers left a short message headlined “Journalism and what is a journalist”.<\/p>\n
They criticised titillating and unprofessional coverage on social media, and accused journalists of supporting the government.<\/p>\n
The Islamist regime of President Omar al-Bashir has been in power for 25 years.<\/p>\n
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