Determined not to be the victims of the same forces of history, Algerians and Sudanese protesters are staying on the streets.
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Protesters today chanting "the revolution has only just begun", in response to the new transitional government formed by the regime old guard. pic.twitter.com/8nxDTNO25g “They just replaced one thief with another,” Ahmad Ibrahim, a young protester at a sit-in outside of the army headquarters in Khartoum, told The Washington Post. “We are going to keep pushing until all of our demands are met.”
“This is only the beginning of an uncertain political process,” Andrew Lebovich, a North Africa and Middle East expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations, told my colleague Sudarsan Raghavan. “I think protesters will demand much broader changes now that Bouteflika is gone, but we don’t yet know what form this will take.”
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