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Elias Kifle this is how its done

Continuing information on Sustained Protests 4-days in a Row:

SUDAN: Austerity package sparks protests

KHARTOUM, 20 June 2012 (IRIN) - Protests have taken place in Khartoum, nearby Omdurman, and other Sudanese cities over the past few days after Sudanese president Umar Al-Bashir announced a new austerity plan.



Sudanese police used tear gas and batons against some 200 protesters chanting anti-regime slogans in Omdurman market on 19 June. Earlier on in the day, witnesses said police had also used force to disperse two university demonstrations.

Bashir on 18 June announced the gradual removal of fuel subsidies and an increase in taxes and customs duty on luxury products, among other measures. The plan aims to help increase revenue and narrow a US$2.4 billion budget deficit caused by the loss of oil revenue since the secession of South Sudan in July 2011.

Fuel Lines in Khartoum today


“The current economic and political context is threatening to unleash a revolution of the hungry that will inevitably topple the government," said Hafiz Ismail, an economist and Sudan director of the London-based advocacy group Justice Africa.

The protesters also complained of a 35 percent hike in public transport tariffs in Khartoum. Sudanese inflation rose to 30.4 percent in May from 28.6 percent in April, according to the country's statistics agency.



Students gathered at the gates of Khartoum's Sudan University chanting "No to price hikes" and "People want the regime down", before the police dispersed them using "excessive violence", according to Ghazy Badridden, a faculty of engineering graduate who participated in the demonstrations.

Students from Ahlia University in Khartoum were driven out of their classrooms after a large number of security personnel, accompanied by students who belong to the ruling National Congress Party, entered the campus in pick-up trucks, attacking student with clubs and batons.

Let the Revolution Begin!

Anti government protests in Sudan

Police being chased down

مظاهرات شمبات الحلة اليوم

Wadnubawi protests 29 June 7 مظاهرات ودنوباوي 29 يونيو

PetroAdwa,
Guss where is going to be the next eruption? You know it very well, it will be in MESKEL ADEBABAY, by 80,0000 millions of Ethiopians who hate your Agami!!e guts from the core. It will be the nasty way, when it comes to you TUHANAM A!!IGAMEs. Every single YE AIG!GAME ZERE, throat will be slited like thanks giving turkeys. It is reall it is not a treat. The blood [deleted], bed bag AI!GAMES, who are are destroying the fabric of Ethiopian society to the lowest, will pay dearly in the hands of the Ethiopians. We shall see whow long the TUHANAM ZEREs are going to sustain in power.


R.I.P ABAY SHITYYZ TIGRAY.
R.I.P ABAY TIGRAY TIGRIGNA,

1,000 held, hundreds hurt in Sudan protests: Activists
http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?pa ... dle%20East


Sudan’s clampdown on Friday protests triggers confrontation with opposition parties

http://www.sudantribune.com/Sudan-s-cla ... iday,43098

Revolution until the regime collapses, Sudanese opposition says

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent ... se-op.aspx

Relations between Sudan and Eritrea have
become strained as a result of Sudan's vote to sanction
Eritrea on the Somalia issue in IGAD and the AU. The
Sudanese DCM said Sudan could not sacrifice its relationship
with the region and the continent for the sake of Eritrea.
In response, Eritrea has increased its courtship of JEM and
other Darfuri rebel groups in a supposed attempt to undermine
the Sudanese government.

http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=09ASMARA205

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