Sudan's security forces fired gas grenades to disperse protesters after hundreds of protesters marched into the streets of the city of Atbara shouting anti-government slogans on the second day of demonstrations in several cities, including the capital, Khartoum.

According to officials in the Nile River state, the authorities declared a state of emergency in the city of Atbara after hundreds of protests against rising prices and scarcity of commodities, and the demonstrators set fire to the headquarters of the ruling party in the city. The authorities ordered schools closed after a curfew was imposed in Atbara.

In turn, the ruling National Congress Party regretted the «attempts by some political forces to sedition, and undermine the security and stability of the country, to work to stir up unrest, and undermine stability, and damage the capabilities of the people and property».

A young man, Mohammed Issa, known as "Makor", was shot dead by police yesterday morning during protests in the northern city of Burber in northern Sudan. Police also fired live bullets in the town of Gedaref to disperse protesters. A student named Muayed Ahmed.

Public protests over the cost of living continued for the second day in a row and moved to a number of Sudanese cities.

A Reuters witness said protests in Sudan over price hikes and the liquidity crisis had spread to the capital Khartoum yesterday. Some 150 protesters blocked a main street in Khartoum and chanted "The people want to overthrow the regime."

"The demonstration began with university students, and when they arrived in the city center, the citizens joined them. The demonstrators attacked the headquarters of the National Congress Party and set it on fire," a witness from Dongola, the capital of the northern state, said by telephone.

Witnesses set fire to the headquarters of the National Congress Party, also in the city of Gadarif, 550 kilometers east of Khartoum.

Tayeb Omar Bashir, a resident of the city, said the demonstration was launched from the center of the city. "The protesters threw stones at the banks' buildings, which shattered their faces and smashed cars in front of them."

He added that the demonstrators "then moved to the headquarters of the ruling party, near the market, and burned it completely."

In Port Sudan, the capital of the Red Sea state - the main port of Sudan on the Red Sea - which President Omar al-Bashir arrived to attend an air military training, hundreds of citizens took part in mass protests, attended by high school students and others at the university, In response to a decision by the Bread Control Committee in Port Sudan to raise the price of bread to three pounds, provided that subsidized bread is delivered to schools and communities at a price of LE per piece. Police dispersed protesters using tear gas. Witnesses said the protesters condemned the high cost of living and called for "the overthrow of the regime." The shops were closed in the city market, in light of the heavy deployment of security forces in a number of areas. Demonstrations also began in the city of Nuhud in North Kordofan state.

In the meantime, the head of the National Umma Party Imam Sadiq al-Mahdi, the former Prime Minister of Sudan - after the absence of the boat of the year, to the capital Khartoum, and amid the reception of a crowd of his party, Ola Hataf to demand the party's position to demonstrate as an option to change the economic situation.

But in his first public speech, al-Mahdi called for the formation of a national government headed by a convention to resolve Sudan's economic and political crises. Mahdi pointed out that the national government is committed to adhere to the rule of governance, and to address the current situation of underdevelopment. He revealed the preparation of a memorandum to the Presidency of the Republic, without specifying a date for this, after signing it from all components of the Sudanese people. Al-Mahdi called on citizens to protest without subverting public property and without violence, stressing that peaceful expression is a constitutional and human right.

Burning headquarters of the ruling party

In Sudanese cities amid protests

To raise the price of bread.