Another protest was staged by over 1,000 people in the capital city of Khartoum yesterday, calling on the resignation of President Omar al-Bashir.

The ongoing protest, it would be recalled, started last week when the fuel subsidy was removed, with official death toll standing at 33, although human right groups and some diplomats puts the figure at 100.  
Some 3,000 people gathered late on Sunday to pay condolences to the family of a pharmacist shot and killed during a protest on Friday, a witness said.
 
Our source also disclosed that about 1,000 joined a protest afterward, blocking a road in Khartoum's Burri district and shouting “the people want to overthrow the regime” and “freedom, freedom”, the witness said. Police and security agents watched the march but did not interfere.
 
Activists also reported a protest in Port Sudan, the country's biggest port on the Red Sea. Details were not immediately available.
 
The cuts were initiated by the loss of three-quarters of the crude output it relied on for state revenues and foreign currencies in importation of food, to South Sudan after secession.

Meanwhile, government has started preparations to raise salaries of civil servants starting in October, while the minimum wage would be retroactively increased from January, 2014. 

Bashir has stayed in power despite rebellions, U.S. trade sanctions, an economic crisis, an attempted coup last year and an indictment from the International Criminal Court on charges of masterminding war crimes in the western region of Darfur.