The World - News from Dec. 30, 1988
The Sudanese government rolled back huge price increases in sugar and other commodities after a general strike cut off communications, shut down a main airport and seaport and virtually paralyzed major cities. The Sudan News Agency, in one of the few dispatches to get out of Khartoum, reported by radio that the price boosts, imposed Monday, were rescinded at an emergency Cabinet meeting convened by Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi. Police fired on anti-government demonstrators in the capital who continued to press for greater reforms after hearing that the government had agreed to scrap the price increases, Egypt’s Middle East News Agency reported.
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