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The last time I spoke to Reem Abbas in Sudan, she had just returned home and still had

tear gas in her eyes from the protest she had been covering. This morning,

I caught her in her car during an internet blackout.

I am using a roaming SIM card. A friend just gave me access to a roaming SIM card. I want to thank

them. But no one has internet basically because all the mobile data is not working.

Two days ago, I sent something via Bluetooth. You can imagine. So yeah, just going back all school.

It's funny that Bluetooth is old school now. So where exactly are you right now, Reem?

I'm on McNamere Avenue in downtown Harto. It's very quiet. Life is not normal. I mean, you just

don't have the same buzz in Harto many more. People driving around busy traffic jams, you just

don't have that. People are scared right now to go out. I think it's a combination of,

I mean, there is still fear, but also just that we need to take time to reorganize.

You know, we don't have internet. We don't have the sit-in where people used to meet.

So people right now, it's all about we need to figure out what we wanted to.

What's going on in Sudan right now, Reem? What's happened since we last spoke?

The sheer was, the sheer was hosted on the 11th of April.

Thanks rolling through the capital, chaired on by protesters demanding the president Omar al-Bashir steps down.

Since then, a buddy called the transitional military council has been, it's not really the government,

but it has been, you know, in power and they don't want to hand over power to a civilian rule.

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