130 Time December 23–30, 2019
A SYMBOL RISES, A DESPOT FALLS
For months, protesters had been marching in the Sudanese
capital, Khartoum, calling for the ouster of their leader of three
decades, Omar al-Bashir. Three days after activist Alaa Salah, 22,
was photographed on April 8 speaking atop a car, al-Bashir
was gone. A new generation of Sudanese was heard.(^2019) PHOTOS OF THE YEAR