A Background Note on the Final Round of Economic Austerity Measures Imposed by the Numeiry Regime: June 1984 - March 1985

The last package of austerity measures introduced by the Numeiry regime during February and March 1985, which culminated in the food riots, strikes and popular overthrow of the regime, should be understood in the context of the seven-year long rescue operation that Sudan’s “international community” of main donor governments and multilateral agencies had until then successfully pieced together.