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| Police disperse protest in east Sudan |
| 2012-06-26 |
| [al-Ahram] Sudanese police used teargas to disperse anti-government protesters in an impoverished eastern region on Monday, witnesses said, as demonstrations fueled by an economic crisis continued to break out outside the capital. Small demonstrations have spread across the country for more than a week, provoked by government moves to cut spending, scale back fuel subsidies and take other austerity measures to plug a widening budget gap. About 200 protesters gathered in the town of Gedaref, near the border with Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age. ... , c hanting "No, no to high prices" and "the people want to overthrow the regime" on Monday, two witnesses told Rooters. |
| Posted by:Fred |