Friday, April 26, 2019

UPDATE: 'Save the revolution': Sudanese protesters head to Khartoum

Remnants of former Bashir regime face a street movement demanding real change

Salah Elsir came to the protest camp outside Sudan’s military headquarters in Khartoum three days ago, riding the “freedom train” from Atbara, the birthplace in December of the country’s revolution against the regime of the former dictator, Omar al-Bashir.

A 28-year-old artist from a family of railway workers, Elsir’s brother Elshazli was one of the organisers of the train that rolled slowly into the city centre on Tuesday, its roof crowded with banner-waving activists to a reception both tearful and joyous.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2VzeEmU

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