How protesters toppled Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir – podcast
The Guardian’s Nesrine Malik grew up in Sudan and witnessed first-hand the brutality of the country’s then president, Omar al-Bashir. Malik reflects on what his ousting, after 30 years, means for Sudan. Plus: Angelique Chrisafis on the Notre Dame Cathedral fire
Omar al-Bashir, the last of the Arab world’s long-term dictators, was finally overthrown last week after months of protests.
The Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik grew up under Bashir’s government. In the 1990s, while at the University of Khartoum, she witnessed the brutality of his regime when government security forces stormed her campus, spraying teargas and beating students with batons. The government was unhappy with the results of a student union election.