The momentum behind the Arab Spring revolutions appears to have been checked – for
now. The Libyan domino hasn’t fallen. But there’s more unrest to come in North Africa. On March 21, a group called Youth for Change will hold mass protests throughout Sudan.
Youth for Change (sinister name) are inspired, obviously, by what has happened in Egypt and Tunisia. Their aim, they say, is to ‘to rewrite the constitution with the voice of the people in
order to hold national general elections:
‘[We march] to reclaim our dignity as human beings first and second as Sudanese …that has been violated by the regime when it killed thousands of our brothers in Darfur, the north, the east, and all the documented incidents to dishonour the Sudanese nation. The regime violated the ethics, law and of course Islam itself when it allowed the security forces to torture and rape humans and abuse all the Sudanese people.
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