SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Financial Times - In Sudan, the seeds of change have truly been sowed

Full article: 20/4/19: Financial Times – In Sudan, the seeds of change have truly been sowed, by Yousra Elbagir

Summary:

London-based Sudanese journalist Yousra Elbagir explores “whether the seeds of change had truly been sowed” in post-Bashir Sudan.

 Elbagir highlights several transitional military council concessions: group press visas issued to foreign journalists for the first time since 2015, the evaporation of Islamist public order laws, and the “gentle” attempts to disperse that masses at the sit-in outside the military headquarters.

 Elbagir concludes that the sit-in is a "safe space" for Sudanese protesters, and “their most powerful negotiation tool,” with the sit-in area becoming “a sanctuary and a symbolic battleground in the fight for personal and political liberty.”