DARFUR, 10 February, 2021 (TON): On Tuesday, protests broke out in Darfur region and other parts of Sudan over the rising cost of living.

A new government team including rebel leaders has been tasked with fixing an economy, mismanagement, and civil war under now-ousted president Omar al-Bashir.

The area faces inflation, chronic hard currency shortages, and a flourishing black market.

Demonstrators in Nyala, capital of South Darfur state, hurled stones at police and set several shops on fire in the main market, the witnesses said.

Protesters chanted, "No to high prices, no to hunger," as police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators.

In the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, student protests broke out prompting the suspension of schools and closure of several shops, the media said.

Similarly, many protests and demonstrations of such kind went on in most of the areas of the country.

Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok named a new team on Monday that includes rebel leader and economist Gibril Ibrahim as finance minister.

"We promise not to sleep until we end bread and fuel queues, and to make life-saving medications available at reasonable prices," Ibrahim said.

Cases of looting and robberies were reported in Gedaref.

Sudan has been under an economic crisis that has been a decade- long plagued by the U.S. sanctions, however, the country has been undergoing a rocky transition since the April 2019 ouster of Al-Bashir that triggered the hardships.