Sudan's newly appointed First Vice President Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf said, after his meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Wednesday, that the state of emergency declared across the country is aimed at stopping smuggling activities "destroying" the economy, not targeting the ongoing anti-government demonstrations.
Emergency doesn’t mean to ‘suppress protests’, he stressed, but is a response for calls to impose security and safety in the country.
Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) revealed in a statement that the kid Muayed Yasir Juma, 5, was run over by a vehicle that belongs to the ‘regime militias’. The police arrested the criminals and handed them out to be trialed according to the emergency law.
SPA denounced the incident and listed it under the 'crimes committed by the government.'
Sudanese Prime Minister Mohamed Tahir Ayala said, following his meeting with Bashir on Wednesday, that they agreed on a number of procedures and decisions that will be taken in the coming days. These procedures are related to economic topics that include removing gaps that weakened the economy in the country.
Ayala vowed to revise all imposed fees and taxes on goods and to guarantee the activation of procedures to ease access to bread, medicine, fuel, and funding.
The Sudanese ‘uprising’ has entered the second week of its 3rd month, after protests first erupted on Dec. 19. The protests were faced with excessive violence, killing 31 citizens according to official numbers, and more than 50 as confirmed by the opposition and the Amnesty International.
