Wishful Spring Thinking Or The Beginning Of The End For Bashir? -- Alex Perry, Time
Does a week of protests in and around Khartoum show that Sudan is facing its own Arab Spring?
In a bunker hidden by camouflage from Sudanese bombers roaming overhead at a secret rebel base in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan, Major General Izzat Kuku outlined the plan to overthrow Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist government in Khartoum. The acting battle commander of the Nuba rebels said his fighters would link up with insurgent comrades from two other southern Sudanese states, Darfur and Blue Nile, who likewise accuse Khartoum of autocracy, religious hate and genocide. The united rebel force — called the Sudan Revolutionary Front — would then march on Khartoum. That advance would be the signal for opposition forces inside Khartoum to stage a popular uprising up against the government. And Bashir would fall.
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More News On The Unrest In Sudan
Police disperse protest in east Sudan: witnesses -- Reuters
Sudanese police crackdown on growing protests -- CNN
Sudan unrest: Austerity protests spread in Khartoum -- BBC
Sudan government steps up crackdown on protests, vows to press on with austerity measures -- Washington Post/AP
Sudan: No Reinstating Fuel Subsidies, Despite Protests -- Voice of America
Sudan finance minister: no retreat on cuts despite protests -- Reuters
Sudan 'won't restore fuel subsidies': minister -- AFP
Sudan's Bashir defiant after Khartoum protests -- Reuters
Sudan protests are no 'Arab Spring', Bashir says -- AFP
Sudan edges towards Arab Spring -- The Guardian/Reuters
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