While Sudan and Algeria protests have their own character, they’re inspiring fresh optimism among civilians for revival of an Arab Spring in Egypt and elsewhere
Sudanese demonstrators hold national flags and chant slogans as they protest against the army's announcement that President Omar al-Bashir would be replaced by a military-led transitional council, outside Defence Ministry in Khartoum, Sudan on April 11, 2019.
Still, the Sudanese and Algerian crowds have been inspired and emboldened by the earlier revolts. “It is of course [part of the Arab Spring], but it also has its own life,” Khalid Albaih, a popular Sudanese cartoonist and political activist, told The Globe and Mail on Thursday. “We understand the need to keep this peaceful,” Mr. Albaih wrote in a message from Copenhagen, his home in self-exile. He said the protesters would continue “letting the army know that they did their job – if they did – but [also telling them] it’s not their job to rule.”
“The fact that in both countries [Sudan and Algeria] a military council ‘responded to the people's call’ makes it look more like Egypt in 2013 than the Arab world in 2011,” said Youssef Cherif, a Tunisia-based political analyst, referring to the 2013 Egyptian military coup that ousted a Muslim Brotherhood-led government that had been elected following the 2011 ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
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