Sudan: Hundreds Ride 'Freedom Train' From Atbara to Khartoum

23 April 2019

Atbara / Khartoum — Hundreds of people have ridden on what activists call the 'freedom train', from the headquarter of the Sudanese Railways in Atbara, River Nile state, to the capital Khartoum, to swell the sit-in outside the General Command of the Sudanese army, and to provide those already at the sit-in with food and supplies.

It began with a protest outside the railway headquarters in Atbara on Sunday, where demonstrators demanded accountability from all corrupt officials in the company. Atbara was the site of the earliest protests in mid-December 2018, which would grow into the current countrywide mass movement.

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