Sudanese youth find their futures on hold, suspended by uncertainty in transition period following Sudan's uprising
Farida, 26, graduated from the University of Khartoum in 2017 with a degree in education. Since then, she has not been able to find work as a teacher.
“Our trust in the military is zero, we do not expect anything from them,” said Sewahly, 19, who stopped attending high school when the protests started. In some ways, the centre is a small re-creation of the sit-in, which over the course of months had burgeoned into a tent city where protesters welcomed the homeless, street vendors and the poor.
Throughout his life and longer, Sudan had been at war with itself, with Khartoum fighting multiple rebel movements. Sudan was cut in half when South Sudan seceded in 2011. But the military soon showed it would brook no further dissent. Security forces stormed the protest camp on June 3.He was one of hundreds who were rounded up and beaten in the crackdown. Up until then, he had worn his hair long, covering it in a Rastafarian-style knit cap. On that day, one of the soldiers shaved it with a knife. He remembers watching paramilitaries beat a mother and her child and feeling helpless to stop it.
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