{"id":4500,"date":"2019-02-13T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2019-02-13T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T09:05:59","slug":"sudanese-students-worried-by-demonstrations-in-their-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/sudanese-students-worried-by-demonstrations-in-their-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese Students Worried by Demonstrations in Their Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weeks of protests in Sudan are worrying and affecting students from that country at the American University in Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201cI used to visit Sudan at every vacation, but since the protests started, my family and I don\u2019t have any intention of going back until the situation calms down, despite the fact that most of my extended family is living there,\u201d said Esraa Suliman, an AUD student.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Razan Al-Zain, a third-year Sudanese architecture student, said that the protests are making it difficult to contact those living in Sudan, &#8220;since internet has been cut off&#8221; in many places.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to contact my mother, she has to use a VPN which isn&#8217;t always reliable.&#8221;&nbsp;<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cATMs don\u2019t have money, gas stations don\u2019t have gas, and bakeries don\u2019t have bread, so it\u2019s become very difficult to live there,\u201d Al-Zain said.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demonstrations in Sudan broke out in December after food prices trippled. The protests quickly turned into nationwide rallies against Omar al Bashir who has been ruling the country for three decades after a coup d&#8217;Etat in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudanese officials say 30 people have died in protest-related violence, the U.A.E.-based newspaper The National reported. The New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch says at least 51 people have been killed in clashes with security forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9165-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9165-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9165-1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Sudanese AUD students Razan Al-Zein and Esraa Suliman, February 2019. Photo Sufanah Hammad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks of protests in Sudan are worrying and affecting students from that country at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}