The People's Record

Protesters march in Omdurman, Sudan’s largest city, just across the Nile from capital Khartoum. Their movement has listed 15 demands, the biggest of which is for the regime, in power since Omar al-Bashir’s 1989 coup, to leave power. They’re also asking for basic freedoms, inflation controls, and an end to religious discrimination. Though some of the country’s youth and educated elite have long pushed for such a movement, it was Bashir’s June 18 announcement of new austerity cuts, including to fuel subsidies, that sparked yesterday’s protests.