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Hello.

Today, how did you spend Easter?

Eggs, bunnies, traffic jams,

sunburn?

Very different in the Philippines, ritualized and painful.

The name Babylon conjures up splendour, but we hear of neglect and abandonment. Nepal has suffered badly in recent years, earthquake, political upheaval, and now it's

faced with people trafficking.

And yes, Brexit, we hear the view from a long way away.

To Sudan, where for a long time the country's president Omar al-Bashir looked unassailable,

despite years of civil war, international sanctions and indictments for war crimes

and crimes against humanity.

He had overseen decades of remorseless fighting to crush independence movements in southern Sudan and presided over the nation. more In December, street protests began in the country's capital Khartoum.

The state's response was unusually restrained.

And on April 11th, the President was finally removed by the military, which swiftly formed a transitional military

council to negotiate a transition to civilian rule. Soon after, a sit-in outside

the Defence Ministry began, and on Thursday even Sudanese judges joined in to support

change and for an independent judiciary. Alistelith head has been in Khartoum trying to follow

events.

There's something very impressive about what a large group of people can achieve,

even against the greatest of odds, in the most dangerous of places,

if they're committed enough to a cause.

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