Omar al-Bashir
One woman’s act of defiance captures Sudan’s watershed moment
Image of the Week: A phone pic of protestor Alaa Salah will define the end of Omar al-Bashir’s iron-fisted rule
Fighting child marriage in Sudan
Asha el-Karib, a Sudanese feminist and activist, doesn’t think ten-year-old girls should marry, or that all women be required to have a male guardian. She’s presented some 120 articles of “alternative legislation” to the Sudanese public that would change these and other family and marriage laws now in effect in Sudan. For this, she’s been branded anti-Islamic and a tool of foreign states.