{"id":15537,"date":"2019-04-18T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15537"},"modified":"2019-10-10T02:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T06:04:05","slug":"the-women-who-helped-bring-down-sudans-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15537","title":{"rendered":"The women who helped bring down Sudan\u2019s president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. WOMEN’S EQUALITY . <\/p>\n

An article from Vox.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Sudan\u2019s military has overthrown the country\u2019s longtime president, Omar al-Bashir. It\u2019s a huge win for the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese protesters who have taken to the streets for months calling for his ouster \u2014 and for the brave women who have been a driving force in the protest movement.<\/p>\n

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\nImage by Lana Haroun<\/a><\/center>.<\/p>\n

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Do women have a special role to play in the peace movement? <\/a><\/p>\n

Can the women of Africa lead the continent to peace?<\/a><\/p>\n

Can peace be achieved in South Sudan?<\/a><\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n

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Sudan\u2019s Defense Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf\u00a0announced Thursday\u00a0<\/a> that al-Bashir, who has been\u00a0indicted by the International Criminal Court\u00a0(ICC) <\/a> on charges of committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan\u2019s Darfur region, had been taken into military custody. While it\u2019s unclear if the military plans to turn al-Bashir over to the ICC for prosecution, it\u2019s pretty clear that his brutal 30-year reign has come to a definitive end.<\/p>\n

Much of the credit for al-Bashir\u2019s removal goes to the women who have\u00a0played a prominent role <\/a>\u00a0in the uprising that has swept the country and who have become the faces of the largely peaceful movement to topple the regime.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, an iconic photo of a woman named Alaa Salah, a 22-year-old engineering and architecture student, addressing protesters from atop a car went viral.<\/p>\n

The image,\u00a0captured by local photographer Lana Haroun<\/a>, shows Salah standing on a white car surrounded by a sea of people outside the presidential compound and army headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan\u2019s capital. Wrapped in layers of shimmery white fabric styled as a \u201ctoub\u201d \u2014 a traditional Sudanese style of dress for women \u2014 and gold moon earrings, Salah towers over the crowd of protesters, her finger raised defiantly in the air.<\/p>\n

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. WOMEN’S EQUALITY . An article from Vox.com Sudan\u2019s military has overthrown the country\u2019s longtime president, Omar al-Bashir. It\u2019s a huge win for the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese protesters who have taken to the streets for months calling for his ouster \u2014 and for the brave women who have been a driving force in … Continue reading The women who helped bring down Sudan\u2019s president<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,12],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-15537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-women","tag-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}