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Though this week’s protests in the capital were ostensibly against austerity measures, demonstrators were calling for the government’s overthrow: ‘Khartoum rise up, rise up, we won’t be ruled by a thief!’ They even marched past National Congress Party headquarters in Khartoum North. ‘People are not scared any more – this is why the government is so scared,’ a veteran left-wing activist told us....

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Ja’afar Nimeiri, South Sudan, Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir, El Sadig el Mahdi, Nasr el Din el Hadi el Mahdi, shamasha

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