Civil Disobedience in Sudan
Civil Disobedience in Sudan By Taha Jaafar Nov.27.2016 was the first day of civil disobedience in Sudan. Groups of activists in the social media, mainly Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp besides websites such as alrakoba.net and sudaneseonline.com, started calling for a three day strike 27-29 Nov.2016. The first day was a success were the Sudanese people in Khartoum and other cities such as Wad Medani and Atbara just stayed at home, mainly workers in private sector and some of the workers in public sectors, many private schools and universities gave three days off for workers and students to participate in the strike. Reports from the press said the banks in Khartoum have only done less than 20% of their routine daily transactions, Khartoum Financial centre ( stock market) reported a loss 280 million USD in the first day. Sudanese opposition chose the strike to avoid mass killing similar to the one that took place in Sep. 2013 demonstrations, as more than 300 protesters were ...