{"id":27026,"date":"2018-12-26T21:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27026"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:22:34","slug":"is-it-sudans-version-of-the-arab-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27026","title":{"rendered":"Is it Sudan&#8217;s version of the Arab Spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"79.1496062992\">\n<p>The soaring prices of bread and fuel were the trigger for the outrage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/sudan.html\">Sudan<\/a>&#8216;s president is in the firing line, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/focus\/2009\/03\/20093485834634368.html\">Omar al-Bashir<\/a> facing growing demands to end his 29-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>Riot police dispersed crowds marching towards his presidential palace on Tuesday with tear gas and bullets.<\/p>\n<p>The government says 12 people have been killed in eight days of <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/prompted-protests-sudan-181224114651302.html\">protests<\/a>. Amnesty International thinks the total could be at least 37.<\/p>\n<p>The president is <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/sudan-bashir-vows-reforms-protesters-demand-resignation-181225071852392.html\">promising reforms<\/a> to improve living standards.<\/p>\n<p>But will they be enough to save him?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sara Abdelgalil &#8211; President, Sudan Doctors&#8217; Association UK<\/p>\n<p>Hafiz Mohamed &#8211; Director, Justice Africa<\/p>\n<p>Hajooj Kuka &#8211; Member, GIRIFNA, non-violent resistance movement in Sudan<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soaring prices of bread and fuel were the trigger for the outrage.\u00a0 Now, Sudan&#8217;s president is in the firing line, with Omar al-Bashir facing growing demands to end his 29-year rule. Riot police dispersed crowds marching towards his presidential palace on Tuesday with tear gas and bullets. The government says 12 people have been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026","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=27026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}