{"id":26924,"date":"2018-12-25T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26924"},"modified":"2018-12-25T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:24:28","slug":"sudan-cracks-down-on-growing-anti-government-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26924","title":{"rendered":"Sudan cracks down on growing anti-government protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Anti-government protesters in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/30\/world\/africa\/sudan-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Sudan <\/a>faced a violent crackdown Tuesday in the capital of Khartoum, marking the seventh day of demonstrations that have rocked the northern African country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The protesters &#8212; organized by a group of professional unions including doctors, lawyers, teachers and students and supported by two of the largest opposition parties &#8212; are calling for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/12\/10\/world\/africa\/omar-al-bashir---fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">President Omar al-Bashir<\/a> to step down.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The demonstrations began over fuel shortages and a spike in food prices that saw the cost of bread double in the past year.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Anti-government protesters in Sudan faced a violent crackdown Tuesday in the capital of Khartoum, marking the seventh day of demonstrations that have rocked the northern African country.The protesters &#8212; organized by a group of professional unions including doctors, lawyers, teachers and students and supported by two of the largest opposition parties &#8212; are calling for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}