Low oil prices among drivers behind an economic crisis that has sparked protests across Sudan

Outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, about 100 Sudanese American protestors this week chanted, “long live the struggle of the Sudanese people,” and “down with Bashir.” President Omar al-Bashir’s administration recently lifted subsidies on fuel and gas and increased electricity prices to try to curb inflation, but now hundreds of thousands of Sudanese cannot afford basic…