SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Bloomberg - Social Revolution Arrives in Bin Laden’s Old Neighborhood

6/12/2019: Bloomberg - Social Revolution Arrives in Bin Laden’s Old Neighborhood, by Mohammed Alamin

Mohammed Alamin’s feature piece highlights resistance to the activist-driven social changes in Sudan, following the removal of the public-order law that criminalised alcohol and regulate women’s dressing.

Alamin quotes cleric Nagi Mustafa, the founder of the “Current to Support Shariah” alliance, who claims that the “secularists” behind the social changes are “cheating the youth” and will be defeated by the Sudanese community’s Islamic values. Mustafa is said to regularly attacks the civilian government in his sermons.

Alamin also spoke to Sudanese citizens who said that Sudanese society is still discriminatory to girls and young women, and that empowered youth and women “are a source of worry for the religious leaders…[who] have an interest in keeping the historical privileges they had under al-Bashir.”