SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Financial Times – How Sudan’s women brought down a president

5/12/2019: Financial Times – How Sudan’s women brought down a president, by Siona Jenkins

In a feature piece, Financial Times news editor Siona Jenkins spoke to Sudanese woman activists on the role of women in the Sudanese uprising.

Protester Muzan Alneel attributed the refusal of women in backing down in the face of police and militia violence to women being accustomed to being locked up and beaten by their families, and thereby inured to threats.

Journalist Naba Mohiedeen told FT that al-Bashir attempted to appease women at the start of the protests by offering to suspend to the public order law, but to no avail.

Both Alneel and Mohiedeen argue that progress still needs to be made on women’s rights, and they fear that al-Bashir’s regime is regrouping.