SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Reuters - Sudanese protesters dig in at sit-in site during Muslim fasting month

10/5/19: Reuters – Sudanese protesters dig in at sit-in site during Muslim fasting month

 Nadine Awadalla’s feature piece reports that the sit-in outside Sudan’s Defence Ministry is continuing during Ramadan.

 Protester Hamouda Ali said that the protesters are: “here all day and struggling under the direct heat of the sun. There is no air conditioning, no (inside) halls. So there is no one here except people with a cause, people with something to defend.”

 Protester Omar Hamza noted that “before Ramadan people were saying that the numbers (of protesters) would go down because of the fasting,” but added that: “we are trying to prove to the [military] that the Sudanese Professionals Association and the Declaration for Freedom and Change Forces are just as strong and that we back them until our demands are met.”