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None of the existing workers unions defended us because they cared more about working with the government than speaking for regular people.

— Awadeya Mahmoud

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What WFP is doing is not easy. It's what we need the most in Sudan because you’re mobilizing food around the world for people.

Their families are still hoping that they’re alive. They don’t want to believe they’re dead.

I am optimistic because, unlike in the 1985 revolution, all of Sudan is participating. The new president will have to be fair with men and women.

Do anything to help, even if it’s just chanting and clapping against the regime.

The war displaced my whole family and my children never healed from the horror they felt.

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