{"id":288,"date":"2016-12-02T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2016-12-02T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:40:02","slug":"sudan-police-fire-tear-gas-on-protest-over-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2016\/12\/02\/sudan-police-fire-tear-gas-on-protest-over-price-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan police fire tear gas on protest over price hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Al Jazeera)Subsidy cuts have led to sharp rise in prices of food and medicine, leading opposition parties to call for a strike.<\/h2>\n

Sudanese police forces have fired tear gas at about 300 Sudanese protesters demonstrating against a government decision to cut fuel subsidies.<\/p>\n

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Groups have staged persistent protests for weeks over the subsidy cuts, which have led to a sharp rise in the cost of other goods, including medicines.<\/p>\n

Several opposition groups called for a three-day nationwide strike earlier this week, which received a mixed response.<\/p>\n

“No, no to high prices,” shouted about 300 men and women as they marched along a main street of Omdurman near Khartoum on Wednesday morning, an AFP correspondent reported.<\/p>\n

Anti-riot police swiftly arrived at the scene and fired tear gas to disperse them, the reporter said.<\/p>\n

Sudanese authorities have cracked down on protests in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the deadly unrest that followed a previous round of subsidy cuts in 2013.<\/p>\n

Dozens of people were killed after large demonstrations were crushed, drawing international condemnation.<\/p>\n

Newspaper crackdown<\/h2>\n

Authorities have already arrested more than a dozen opposition politicians in recent weeks, and also cracked down on newspapers critical of subsidy cuts.<\/p>\n

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Members of the powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have seized entire print runs of several dailies that reported the opposition strike call or questioned the cuts.<\/p>\n

Authorities have also halted broadcasts by Omdurman Channel, a private television channel, accusing it of operating without a licence, a charge its owner denied.<\/p>\n

“Today at 8:30pm we received a letter from the authorities saying the channel has been stopped from broadcasting because it didn’t have a licence,” Hussein Khojali, the channel’s owner, told AFP on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“This is completely false,” he said, adding that the channel had obtained a licence six years earlier when it had been launched.<\/p>\n

Media in Sudan are frequently targeted for their reporting. The country regularly ranks near the bottom of international press freedom rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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