In power for three decades, 75-year-old Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was ousted on 11 April by the army after months of protests against his iron-fisted rule.
HOSH BANNAGA - Residents of deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir’s home village are still coming to terms with his ouster, but most agree that the time had come for him to go.
“Only his family relatives benefitted” from his rule, Hamid told an AFP correspondent who visited the village.In power for three decades, 75-year-old Bashir was ousted on 11 April by the army after months of protests against his iron-fisted rule. But his fate was sealed when the army bowed to the demands of tens of thousands of protesters in Khartoum and elsewhere, nearly four months into demonstrations sparked by a tripling of bread prices.But Naseer Ibrahim, another villager, was glad to see the back of Bashir.
Hosh Bannaga has a hospital that provides medical aid to nearby villages, but part of it is still under construction. Bashir “is not corrupt,” Ibrahim contended, but as president was responsible for an entourage that was corrupt.‘HE DESERVED TO GO’“Yes, there is an economic crisis and people are unable to get essential items, but it is because of the wars,” Issa said.
In 2011, the conflict also broke out in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states between government forces and rebels.
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