‘A women’s revolution’: Why women are leading calls for change in Sudan
Mar 12, 2019
4 minutes
The anti-government protests that have convulsed Sudan over the past three months are, in many ways, a revolution told in chants.
“Just fall, that’s all,” goes the movement’s most popular slogan, directed at the 30-year-long regime of President Omar al-Bashir. It’s become a kind of refrain during the hundreds of demonstrations that have taken place since protesters first began pouring into the streets in December, as their initial anger over the rapidly rising cost of basic commodities morphed into a full-on call for regime change.
“Revolution is the people’s choice,” demonstrators have called into the dusty streets of Khartoum, Port Sudan, Wad
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