Across Sudan, thousands of people have been protesting a military coup that returned soldiers to the helm of Africa’s third largest country in October 2021. As the military summarily ousted the civilian leader of government, it was clear that the 2019 revolution – when a hybrid military and civilian regime seized power, ending the 30-year presidency of Omar al-Bashir – was incomplete.
This latest wave of protests has been largely peaceful but the response from the state has been violent: arbitrarily killing, detaining and disappearing civilians who have publicly supported the revolution.
