The protests started over cuts to bread subsidies in December but have since morphed into anger at Mr Bashir's rule. In Kassala, near the Eritrean frontier, Mr Bashir also said that Sudan was reopening its border with Eritrea after about a year-long closure. THE LATESTAs Mr Bashir was speaking in Kassala, new rallies broke out in the capital and elsewhere. The protests started over cuts to bread and fuel subsidies, but now demonstrators are calling for the 75-year-old president to resign. Mr Bashir, who has won elections several times since coming to power in a coup in 1989, has struck a defiant note.

Source: Daily Nation February 01, 2019 03:45 UTC