Must-read articles and tweets on #SudanRevolts:
NCP figure warns against ignoring youths in political dialogue – SudanTribune
A leading figure in Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) said that while violent protests that broke out this month may have subsided on the face of it, it has “deepened the layers of negative feelings and fear of the future”. Former presidential adviser Ghazi Salah al-Deen al-Attabani said on his Facebook page that “the society needs to heal and Sudanese need a major reconciliation among themselves”. The Sudanese government has recently rolled out an economic package that triggered some of Sudan’s worst protests in recent years, with the death toll surpassing 200 according to Amnesty International. Sudanese authorities say they have arrested 700 people in connection with the riots, but denied using live ammunition against protesters, accusing outside elements of firing at demonstrators. Al-Attabani was one of more than 30 NCP figures who signed an open petition this month sent to president Omer Hassan al-Bashir urging him to reinstate fuel subsidies which triggered the recent demonstrations and end killings of protestors…
Online videos showed violent clashes in Sudan one street over from my parents’ house, by Hana Baba
After the government of Omar al-Bashir announced the lifting of fuel subsidies recently (making the price of a gallon of gas skyrocket from 12 to 21 Sudanese pounds, and causing the price of a canister of cooking gas to nearly double), people in the Sudanese cities of Medani and Omdurman ignited a chain of protests that eventually spread to the capital city Khartoum and Khartoum Bahry to the north. For many, this was a last straw. They had already been suffering under crippling economic conditions. And, when the frustrated masses headed to the streets in protest, burning tires and stoning storefronts, authorities responded with tear gas, batons, and most unexpectedly, live ammunition. Reports of the deaths immediately hit the Internet, for a time. Widely-distributed videos and photos showed bodies strewn with blood, of men, women, and children. The government shut the Internet down a number of times. For many of us in the Sudanese diaspora living in the US, it has hit home in a profound way, with family members and friends among the dead. People have been recognizing their street corners and neighborhoods in the photos…
Sudan Detained Journalists Who Supported Anti-Government Protests – Vice
Last Monday night, Abdel-Rahman El-Mahdi slept in his car outside Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) compound’s gates. His wife, Dahlia Elroubi, had been arrested after eight NISS agents visited their home in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital. When the NISS agents arrived, Abdel sent his three children to their rooms. “I said [to the NISS agents], ‘Do you have a search warrant?’” Abel told me over the phone two days later. “They said, ‘No. We are national security, and we don’t need a search warrant.’” The agents tossed Dahlia – along with her camcorder, camera, photocopy machine, and small printer – into their car. After the agents drove away, Abdel jumped in his car and drove after them. “They drove to the palace compound, and that was where I lost contact with her,” Abdel said. While his mother watched his three kids, Abdel spent the next day outside the gates, exhausted and wearing rumpled clothes. Authorities gave Abdel few details about why they arrested his wife…
Police disperses the public talk at Uni of Khartoum with tear gaz #Abena #SudanRevolts pic.twitter.com/kSx0r6mcAE
— Girifna Media (@girifna) October 6, 2013
Discussion with Sudanese friend #sudanrevolts #abena Me to friend: If the revolts fail we have to respond as (cont) http://t.co/4N3V1fYqIS
— cordonedsudan (@cordoned) October 6, 2013
