{"id":3221,"date":"2019-02-28T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:24:41","slug":"sudans-bashir-bans-protests-regulates-foreign-currency-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2019\/02\/28\/sudans-bashir-bans-protests-regulates-foreign-currency-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Bashir bans protests, regulates foreign currency trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MORE ON&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/sudan.html\">SUDAN<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/sudans-protesters-agree-negotiate-omar-al-bashir-190228145111526.html\">Will Sudan&#8217;s protesters agree to negotiate with Omar al-Bashir?<\/a>today<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/sudans-al-bashir-cracks-protests-190227170413363.html\">Sudan&#8217;s al-Bashir cracks down on protests<\/a>today<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/sudan-bashir-declares-year-state-emergency-190222193100058.html\">Sudan&#8217;s Bashir reshuffles top team amid state of emergency<\/a>4 days ago<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/listeningpost\/2019\/02\/sudan-protests-defying-bashir-media-blackout-190216130300295.html\">Sudan&#8217;s protests: Defying Bashir&#8217;s media blackout<\/a>last week<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/sudan.html\">Sudan<\/a>&#8216;s President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/omar-bashir.html\">Omar al-Bashir<\/a>&nbsp;banned public gatherings and protests in a series of emergency decrees issued on Monday as he faces the most sustained&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/sudan-revolution-hungry-persists-crackdown-190127124859617.html\">anti-government street unrest<\/a>&nbsp;of his 30-year rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement issued by the presidential palace, Bashir also announced a ban on trading or hoarding subsidised fuel products, as well as new regulations on trading and transporting foreign currency and gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his decrees, Bashir authorised the public prosecutor to revoke any suspect&#8217;s immunity should they have it and set up new courts to deal with cases related to the state of emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 coup, on Friday declared a year-long nationwide&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/sudan-bashir-declares-year-state-emergency-190222193100058.html\">state of emergency<\/a>&nbsp;to rein in the protest campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5K5jzIb7quY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sudan&#8217;s Bashir declares year-long state of emergency (2:32)<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ADVERTISING<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teads.tv\/viewable-outstream-formats\/?utm_source=inread&amp;utm_medium=credits&amp;utm_campaign=invented%20by%20teads\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inRead&nbsp;invented by Teads<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also dissolved Sudan&#8217;s&nbsp;federal and provincial governments as part of a major shake-up of his administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But protests have carried on, with hundreds of demonstrators undeterred on Monday despite riot police firing tear gas at crowds in the capital, Khartoum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are challenging the regime and we are not scared of the state of emergency,&#8221; said protester Erij who gave only her first name for security reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have only one aim and that is to make the president step down.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later on Monday, protesters also took to the streets in the Khartoum districts of Burri, Shambat and Al-Deim, witnesses said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burri has become a site of almost daily rallies with protesters blocking streets and burning tyres and tree trunks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protest organisers, an umbrella group called Alliance for Freedom and Change, called for Monday&#8217;s &#8220;rally to challenge the emergency&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riot police also fired tear gas into the compound of Ahfad University for Women after students staged a sit-in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Police fired tear gas when some students stepped out of the campus and began chanting slogans, that&#8217;s when some canisters hit the compound,&#8221; a witness said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Weeks of protests<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protests first erupted in the town of Atbara on December 19 last year against a government decision to triple the price of bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They quickly escalated into demonstrations against Bashir&#8217;s iron-fisted rule as protesters called on him to step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5QVPjaAlkPw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sudan&#8217;s Bashir reshuffles top team (2:34)<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials say 31 people have died in protest-related violence since then, while Human Rights Watch has put the death toll at 51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 75-year-old leader has remained defiant but has launched top-level changes in his administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He even sacked his long-time ally and first vice president Bakri Hassan Saleh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, he swore in a new prime minister and appointed 16 army officers and two others from the feared National Intelligence and Security Service as governors for Sudan&#8217;s 18 provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sudan&#8217;s financial woes have worsened amid a lack of foreign currency since South Sudan became independent in 2011, taking with it the bulk of oil earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resulting shortages in basic goods have fuelled spiralling inflation that has devastated the purchasing power and living standards of ordinary Sudanese, from agricultural labourers to middle-class professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORE ON&nbsp;SUDAN Will Sudan&#8217;s protesters agree to negotiate with Omar al-Bashir?today Sudan&#8217;s al-Bashir cracks down on proteststoday Sudan&#8217;s Bashir reshuffles top team amid state of emergency4 days ago Sudan&#8217;s protests: Defying Bashir&#8217;s media blackoutlast week Sudan&#8216;s President&nbsp;Omar al-Bashir&nbsp;banned public gatherings and protests in a series of emergency decrees issued on Monday as he faces the most sustained&nbsp;anti-government street unrest&nbsp;of his&#8230; 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