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Bashir Declares Year-Long State Of Emergency Across Sudan

  Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir declared a nationwide state of emergency on Friday and dissolved the government, in an effort to quell weeks of demonstrations … Continue reading Bashir Declares Year-Long State Of Emergency Across Sudan


Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir addresses members of the Popular Defence Force (PDF), a paramilitary group, in the capital Khartoum on February 12, 2019. The PDF is a type of reserve unit that has frequently fought on the side of Sudanese armed forces against ethnic minority rebels in the country’s war zones of Darfur, Blue Nile, and South Kordofan. ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir/ AFP

 

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir declared a nationwide state of emergency on Friday and dissolved the government, in an effort to quell weeks of demonstrations that have rocked his iron-fisted rule of three decades.

“I announce imposing a state of emergency across the country for one year,” Bashir said in a televised address to the nation.

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“I announce dissolving the government at the federal level and at the provincial levels,” he added.

AFP