Sudan’s head of state, Omar al-Bashir, has promised reforms in view of violent protests with dead people. According to the official news agency Suna, the long-standing president said yesterday that „real reforms“ should guarantee citizens a „decent life“.
The protests had ignited last Wednesday in a tripling of the price of bread. Since then, demonstrators have been taking to the streets in about a dozen cities, and doctors have also quit their jobs. In clashes between protesters and security forces, at least eight people were killed, according to officials and eyewitnesses. The opposition speaks of more than 20 dead.
Many protesters call for Bashir’s resignation, which has been ruling the Sudan since 1989 with a strong hand and against which an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide has been issued. Sudan is economically on the ground. In recent months, prices for many foods in the African country have risen sharply.
