The protests that brought down Bashir started four months ago, triggered by a sharp rise in the cost of living. In no time, they had morphed into a full-blown pro-democracy movement albeit minus a central leadership. ILLUSTRATION | VICTOR NDULA
April 11 saw the collapse of the regime of General Hassan Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s long-time ruler.
In circumstances that mirror the string of implosions in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt at the start of this decade during the so-called Arab Spring, the protests that brought down Bashir started four months ago, triggered by a sharp rise in the cost of living.
