Sudan's Omar al-Bashir mocks 'Facebook protesters'Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has ridiculed his opponents' use of social media to organise recent protests against his rule. "Changing the government or presidents cannot be done through WhatsApp or Facebook. The protests started over cuts to bread subsidies in December but have since morphed into anger at Bashir's rule. As 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.

Source: Standard Digital February 01, 2019 09:33 UTC