{"id":29940,"date":"2019-01-20T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29940"},"modified":"2019-01-20T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T22:22:20","slug":"can-the-protests-in-sudan-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29940","title":{"rendered":"Can the protests in Sudan succeed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"72.0605700713\">\n<p>Nationwide protests have been taking place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/Search\/?q=sudan\">Sudan<\/a> almost every day for a month.<\/p>\n<p>They are the longest in decades and the most significant in the country&#8217;s recent history.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations were prompted by a rise in bread and fuel prices. But the protesters quickly turned their attention to other issues and are now demanding the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir\u2019s response has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/sudan-police-fire-live-rounds-home-slain-protester-190118093023028.html\">crackdown by security forces<\/a>. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds arrested in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>How far can the protests go? And will international pressure make a difference?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Richelle Carey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abdel-wahab El Affendi &#8211; professor of politics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies<\/p>\n<p>Alex De Waal &#8211; research professor and Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide protests have been taking place in Sudan almost every day for a month. They are the longest in decades and the most significant in the country&#8217;s recent history. The demonstrations were prompted by a rise in bread and fuel prices. But the protesters quickly turned their attention to other issues and are now demanding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29940","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\/29940","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=29940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}