April 11 saw the collapse of the regime of General Hassan Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's long-time ruler.
In circumstances that mirror the string of implosions in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt at the start of this decade during the so-called Arab Spring, the protests that brought down Bashir started four months ago, triggered by a sharp rise in the cost of living.
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