Sudan_s popular uprising and the demise of Islamism

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S U DA N B R I E F DECEMBER 2019

Sudan’s popular uprising and the demise of Islamism1 AUTHOR Munzoul A. M. Assal University of Khartoum

In December 2018, a peaceful popular uprising erupted in Sudan which led to the downfall of Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. The thirty-year authoritarian rule by the Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) thereby came to an end. Last month, a new law officially dissolved the NCP which was a key demand of the popular protest moment.


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