AMID COUP, SUDAN’S WOMEN FIGHT TO KEEP HARD-WON RIGHTS

When protests in 2018 and 2019 ousted Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s dictator of 30 years, the charge was led by the country’s women. “This revolution is a women’s revolution,” they chanted, marching through the streets of Khartoum and other cities with hijabs wrapped around their noses and mouths to protect them from dust and tear gas. Now, after the country’s military seized power in a coup, they are once again mobilizing.