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April 12, 2019: Omar Al-Bashir is Out, So What’s Next for Sudan? Plus; Palestinians and the Elections in Israel

After months of street protests, people in Sudan finally got rid of the country’s longtime dictator Omar Al- Bashir, but the celebration soon turned into anger when they realized one military rule is replaced by another- As one protester put it- we did not protest to replace one thief with another

So what is next for Sudan? And what in store for the movement for democracy and social justice there?

We will get the answers from Khalid Medani who is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies at McGill University in Canada.

And with Israeli elections topping the headlines in the past few days, we’ll get a Palestinian perspective on the elections from the Jerusalem based writer Budour Hassan.

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