'Women are now leading the way': activist tells MEE

Amira Osman, a professor at Tshwane University of Technology Pretoria in South Africa and a member of the Sudan Solidarity Group - an organisation that helps the Sudanese diaspora - told Middle East Eye that women have been leading the protests.

"The role of women in the revolution has perhaps been the most incredible social change. Having been subjected to years of abuse because of backward interpretations of religious texts applied through law, women are now leading the way to a new political future," she said.