MONDAY 5 AUGUST 2019Forgotten: the women who
fuelled Sudan’s uprising
Male-dominated politics threatens to return just months after Omar al-
Bashir’s removal. But indignant feminists who grew up under
repressive policies say: ‘We want to fight’
Protesters rally last month against student killings in Khartoum (EPA)
JUSTIN LYNCH
It was the image of a woman protester that came to define Sudan’s revolution, and women made up the
majority of demonstrators – but activists complain that they have been almost entirely excluded from the
new system.