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 for its outbreak have worsened, especially because of the exorbitant demands of the IMF that the government applies without blinking. The accumulated experience of the previous phases, all the new political practices experienced by this generation born in 2013, give a new strength and clarity to the movement. Even as we write, places are occupied in Khartoum and in several cities, demonstrations, strikes and riots (the so-called "bread riots") are incessant. In recent weeks there have been more than 700 arrests and people killed by the police, the newspapers dealing with the demonstrations were once again seized. Every week, new calls for demonstrations are made. A national appeal to protest throughout the country was launched by student and activist committees, relayed by some opposition parties for Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
The regime of Omar Bashir faces a proliferation of demonstrations against rising prices. The long lines in front of the Sudanese bakeries, fueled by an inflation of the price of flour, turned into "riots of bread", violently repressed. In a country suffering from economic slump, the regime is faltering and barely needs to be rolled into the flour of a revolution.
Inside of country, the economic conditions drag people to revolt against the actual government. Meanwhile, there the influence of same outside factor such as the influence of golf leaders. Thus, the Sudan’s leader does not hesitate to do something without informing the golf leaders. The latter has probably sponsored the rebels and opponents of the system, in order to punish Bachir because he done a visit to Syria to meet Bashar Assad without informing golf leaders.
Today, the movement has not stopped, the reasons for its outbreak have worsened, especially because of the exorbitant demands of the IMF that the government applies without blinking. The accumulated experience of the previous phases, all the new political practices experienced by this generation born in 2013, give a new strength and clarity to the movement. Even as we write, places are occupied in Khartoum and in several cities, demonstrations, strikes and riots (the so-called "bread riots") are incessant. In recent weeks there have been more than 700 arrests and people killed by the police, the newspapers dealing with the demonstrations were once again seized. Every week, new calls for demonstrations are made. A national appeal to protest throughout the country was launched by student and activist committees, relayed by some opposition parties for Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
The regime of Omar Bashir faces a proliferation of demonstrations against rising prices. The long lines in front of the Sudanese bakeries, fueled by an inflation of the price of flour, turned into "riots of bread", violently repressed. In a country suffering from economic slump, the regime is faltering and barely needs to be rolled into the flour of a revolution.
Inside of country, the economic conditions drag people to revolt against the actual government. Meanwhile, there the influence of same outside factor such as the influence of golf leaders. Thus, the Sudan’s leader does not hesitate to do something without informing the golf leaders. The latter has probably sponsored the rebels and opponents of the system, in order to punish Bachir because he done a visit to Syria to meet Bashar Assad without informing golf leaders.
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