Arab fund offers $300-mln loan to cash-starved Sudan 1 SHARES Share it! Growing anger over soaring food prices and Sudan’s economic woes have triggered nationwide protests since December against Bashir’s three-decade rule. Deadly protests erupted in Sudan on December 19 after a government decision to triple the price of bread. The economic crisis has deepened since the secession of South Sudan in 2011 that took along with it the bulk of oil earnings. Bashir and other Sudanese officials blame a decades-old trade embargo imposed by the United States on Sudan in 1997.

Source: Manila Bulletin March 16, 2019 14:03 UTC