Sudan: Graduates protest in Sudan oil area
10.03.2011
More than 200 unemployed graduates took to the streets to demand jobs in the main oil-producing state of northern Sudan on Thursday (10 March), witnesses said, a rare display of dissent in a politically sensitive area. The police have swiftly crushed a series of small protests in north Sudan this year, some seeking an end to the 21-year-rule of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and inspired by uprisings in the Arab world.