Den krigsforbryder-stemplede præsident har hånligt afvist enhver tale om”arabisk forår” i det store og plagede afrikanske land og sagt, at “vor steghede sommer brænder Sudans fjender op” – det vil i hans optik sige oppositionen.
KHARTOUM, 26 July 2012 (IRIN): Recent weeks have seen demonstra-tors, for the most part students, take to the streets of Khartoum – and to a lesser extent other Sudanese cities – to protest against the rising cost of living and call for an end to the 23-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir.
Meanwhile, armed rebellions have been active in the western region of Darfur for almost a decade and broke out in the southern border state of South Kordofan in June 2011 and later in nearby Blue Nile State.
Sudan is in the throes of an economic crisis sparked by the July 2011 secession of South Sudan, which, when it was part of Sudan, produced three-quarters of the oil that almost solely drove the country’s economy.
In June 2012, inflation was running at 37 percent. The government is faced with a budget deficit (underskud) of 2,4 billion US dollar.
While backed by the International Monetary Fund, Khartoum’s austerity measures, such as cutting fuel subsidies and government jobs, devaluing the currency and raising taxes have sparked a series of modest yet growing protests (with their own Twitter hashtag, #sudanrevolts), which in turn have prompted a robust response from security services.
Bashir has derided (spottet) the demonstrators as “elbow-lickers”, an allusion to the supposed futility of their protests.
“They talk of an Arab Spring – let me tell them that in Sudan we have a hot summer, a burning hot summer that burns its enemies,” the president declared in mid-July.
Here is a brief overview of anti-government forces which, despite some alliances, lack strong cohesion (sammenhæng) or coordination among their various elements:
URBAN PROTEST MOVEMENTS
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