#SudanRevolts · Global Voices

Burning Sudanese police car, shared by @his_moezness
Isolated protests in Sudan first began in early 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring movement of the same time that saw protests and revolutions rock countries including Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Syria. Demonstrators in Sudan were met with repression by the authorities, which in turn triggered further unrest.
More recently in June 2012, students have been taking to the streets over drastic rises in food and fuel prices as a result of the country's planned austerity measures. They have since developed into larger scale anti-government protests, which have been again restrained.
Some analyses of the unrest have labelled it the start of the country's own ‘Arab Spring'; however, others dispute similarities between the movements.
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