The protest which led to Omar al-Bashir's collapse was triggered by the price of bread.

Widespread protest, triggered by the rise in the price of bread, gripped Sudan in 2018 and this led to the fall of Omar al-Bashir in 2019.

Widespread protest, triggered by the rise in the price of bread, gripped Sudan in 2018 and this led to the fall of Omar al-Bashir in 2019. People took to the streets in Sudan on December 19, 2018, after the government increased the prices of bread and fuel. The protests had escalated into broader calls for an end to the rule of President Bashir, who came to power after a coup in 1989. Several activists had accused him of mismanaging the economy. After he was ousted, in 2019, he faced a corruption trial, where he admitted taking $90 million in bribes from Saudi Arabia's rulers and was sentenced to two years in jail.

In July 2020, he is again on trial over his alleged role in the 1989 coup d'etat that propelled him to power. He faces a maximum sentence of death. Furthermore, Bashir also faces five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague over Sudan's military campaign in Darfur between 2003 and 2008, where an estimated 300,000 people were killed, according to the UN. In February, the Sudanese government said Bashir would appear before the ICC to face those charges.