Sudan is experiencing severe internet outages amid a power struggle that has pitted the army against a powerful paramilitary force in the streets of the capital Khartoum and around the country.

Alp Toker, director of internet outage monitor NetBlocks, told Recorded Future News that multiple internet providers have started to experience outages across Sudan after nearly a week of fighting. State regulators initially ordered providers to shut down the internet on Sunday as fighting began to intensify but service was quickly restored, according to Reuters.

But now, NetBlocks believes the root causes of the current outages range from power shortages to difficulties around supplying backup generators with gasoline “amid heavy weapons strikes on population centers.”

Canar Telecom, one of the biggest internet providers in the country, began registering partial outages on Wednesday, the fifth day of fighting.

On Friday, connectivity on the company’s services collapsed entirely as a ceasefire in honor of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr was ignored by both sides...