The Sahel Spring: who will own the future in Sudan, Algeria?

Things have changed since the pro-democracy revolutions of post-Soviet eastern Europe, in part because of another revolution altogether—the Fourth Industrial one.
Protesters gather near the Sudanese Army headquarters in the country’s capital, Khartoum, on April 8.
The protests had gone on for weeks—so long that life in the capital was now divided into before and after. Viral villains and heroes emerged and faded, demands were issued, princes were toppled, and euphoria was witnessed and registered around the world. “It was a sense of liberation for me,”...

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