Crowds fill Khartoum’s streets to hail ‘new Sudan’

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File copy: Sudanese protesters wave their national flag and chant slogans during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman on January 31, 2019.

File copy: Sudanese protesters wave their national flag and chant slogans during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman on January 31, 2019. File photo: AFP

Doctors close to the protest movement say at least 127 people were killed and 11 went missing that day — the darkest of an unwavering eight-month protest movement that deposed longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir and forced the generals into a compromise. It loosely translates as “civilian rule”, the prize the revellers hope Sudan’s transition will deliver after 30 years under now-detained former president Omar al-Bashir.

One young girl wearing jeans and draped in a Sudanese flag rode a bicycle to the conference hall, an inconceivable sight in the conservative country even a few months ago.

 

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