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Sudan’s revolutionary women

By Nicholas Norbrook

Posted on May 14, 2019 09:51

The Sudanese Professionals Association has a long history of change-making

Dalia El Roubi is an activist, and a member of the Sudan Congress Party.

She was just ten years old when Omer al-Bashir seized power, and has been jailed for her resistance against the regime.

Her father was a businessman, who created Africa’s first battery factory with his brothers. But her real luck, she says, is the strong women in her family.

 

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