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Sudan

Are Massive Protests Sudan’s ‘Arab Spring’?

Middle East Monitor 12/27/2018

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With a video report by Aljazeera English

At least 3 Sudanese protesters were wounded by gunshots yesterday when security forces dispersed rallies in the capital, after a week of demonstrations against President Omar Al-Bashir’s three-decade rule, as reported on Reuters.

Witnesses told Reuters that 3 protesters were wounded by gunshots, one of them in the head.

A police spokesman was not immediately available to comment. Officials have previously said the security forces exercised restraint and dealt with the protesters in a “civilised manner”.

Al Jazeera English: “Is it Sudan’s version of the Arab Spring? l Inside Story”

Officials and witnesses have previously said at least 12 people have been killed in the unrest so far. Amnesty International said at least 37 people had died.

Rising prices, shortages of basic commodities and a cash crisis have driven protesters to the streets across Sudan to demonstrate against Bashir.

The authorities have shuttered schools and declared curfews and a state of emergency in several regions.

This work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Filed Under: Sudan

About the Author

Middle East Monitor is a not-for-profit press monitoring organization, founded on 1 July 2009, and based in London. Journalists who have written for it include Amelia Smith, Diana Alghoul, Ben White, Jehan Alfarra and Jessica Purkiss. The editorial line straddles the British left and the British Muslim religious Right.

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