Sudan : from manifestations against the rise in the price of bread to calls for the resignation of the president
A movement of revolt rises throughout Sudan against the dictatorship of Omar El Bashir. Initiated against the decision of the government to raise the price of bread, which meant in fact the rise in prices of all commodities, the demonstrations were quick to generalize their slogans to all calamities (massacres and looting in Darfur and Nuba Mountains) that are hitting the country and bringing together all opposition to the regime. The protests soon met with fierce government repression (thousands of arrests, hundreds of people shot) and then turned to a movement for the regime's downfall. This first phase of the movement, which will last a month, has accelerated the hitherto difficult encounters between the different factions of the opposition and the politicization of a whole generation experiencing the common struggle. The intensity of the movement throughout the country was a first since President El Bashir came to power in 1989. Today, the movement has not stopped, the reasons ...