President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government is facing a crisis of legitimacy, analysts say, with inflation that leaves some Sudanese spending 40 percent of their incomes just on bread.
Tag: Demonstrations, Protests and Riots
In Nicaragua, Ortega Was on the Ropes. Now, He Has Protesters on the Run.
When huge protests demanded that he leave office, President Daniel Ortega’s days seemed numbered. But his repressive response has sent thousands into hiding and tightened his hold on power.
Yuan Mu, Face of China’s Tiananmen Square Crackdown, Dies at 90
Mr. Yuan is remembered as the government spokesman who said that “not one person” died in the 1989 assault on protesters. Hundreds were reported killed.
Police Fire Tear Gas on Sudanese Protesters
The demonstrations over rising prices and a nationwide cash shortage are the largest in Sudan in five years.
Critic’s Notebook: France’s Yellow Vests Reveal a Crisis of Mobility in All Its Forms
Mobility is the story of globalization and its inequities. But it is more than trains and automobiles: It includes social and economic movement, too.
Egypt Acquits Democracy Workers in Case That Strained U.S. Ties
More than 40 Americans, Europeans and Egyptians were convicted in 2013, becoming symbols of the post-Arab Spring official backlash against civil society.
Budapest Dispatch: Outside Hungary’s State Television: A Protest. On Air: Pigeon Talk.
Under Viktor Orban, Hungary has become a place of two parallel realities. But rarely have these two bubbles seemed so surreally far apart than during the past week of protests.
Kashmiri Teenagers Are Dying to Protect Militants
Indian forces hunting for separatist fighters now regularly face angry crowds seeking to defend them. Scores of civilians have been killed.
4 Lawmakers Assaulted in Hungary, as Protests Against Orban Continue
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has eroded Hungary’s democratic institutions, but largely avoided acts of state-led violence. That changed on Monday.
In Paris, ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Cut Sharply Into City’s Luxury Trade
Several weekends of violent demonstrations across France have hit the capital’s sellers of high-end goods hard during the year’s most important shopping period