Sudan Revolts

On 16 September 2020, the Freedom House has awarded the 2020 Freedom Award to the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) and the Organization of the December Revolution Martyrs’ Families (ODRMF) for their work ushering a revolution in...

As the month of January comes to an end, we cannot help but reflect on early 2019, which brought a lot of defining changes for Sudan and its community. More and more people were going out...

Since December 2018, Sudan has witnessed a revolution that brought millions of people to the streets across the country, calling for ‘Freedom, Peace, Justice. Revolution is the choice of the people’. The protests, triggered by the...

As May arrived, carrying in its winds the smell of Abrai and voices of Imaams praying taraweeh, marking the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan, the protesters welcome and are eager to greet May and...

Since 6 April, Sudan has been witnessing the largest and longest sit-in in Sudanese history with at least five million protesters camping at the headquarters of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Khartoum. On 11 April,...

In the early hours of 11 April, Sudan’s military announced that they will be making a statement that will be broadcasted on national TV and all radio stations. A few hours later, news of the step down...

Videos and pictures of a young woman leading chants in anti-government protests in Khartoum has gone viral overnight since it first appeared on 8 April, 2019. Pictures have been shared hundreds of thousands of times on...

At the biggest rally so far, thousands of protesters have marched to and staged a sit-in at the headquarters of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Khartoum since 6 April, 2019. In the fourth day of the...

As part of the ongoing anti-government protests in Sudan, the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) have called for a mass protest on Saturday, 6 April, which is dubbed (مليونية 6 ابريل (#مليونية6ابريل, which loosely translates to ‘A Million...

In 1989, Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir seized power after a coup masterminded by the late Sudanese politician Dr Hassan Al Turabi. The purpose of the coup was to establish an Islamic government, and to ‘save’...