Three newspapers were on Thursday seized for covering food price protests in Khartoum and other towns.
A halt in wheat imports to the private sector triggered a sharp rise in the cost of flour and subsequently, bread prices prompting demonstrations led by opposition groups.
Bread prices in Sudan have doubled since the government eliminated subsidies under its 2018 budget.
The price of a loaf of bread rose from 0.5 Sudanese pounds (7 cents) to 1 pound, this according to the Bakeries Union.
Several newspapers have criticised the government’s decision and on Thursday agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) confiscated the print-runs of Al-Tayar, Al-Midan and Al-Jadida newspapers, AFP reports.
“The agents of NISS confiscated all copies of our newspaper today without giving any reason,” Al-Jadida editor Ashraf Abdelaziz told this reporter.
Sudan’s government has begun a series of economic reforms in line with International Monetary Fund recommendations aimed at putting the country’s ailing economy back on track.
Several senior leaders of opposition groups have been arrested by NISS agents since January in a bid to prevent the food price protests from spreading.
Sudan witnessed similar sporadic protests in late 2016 after a government decision to cut fuel subsidies, the report said.
Since October after the US lifted a 20-year-old trade embargo, the Sudan pound has weakened leading to import volumes.
