Witnessing the Birth of a Revolution Ahmed Fadel | Al Jazeera Net Reporter - Sudan
Being able to anticipate what will happen is an art mastered by few journalists, but in December 2018 Al Jazeera’s editorial department did just that. I had only just started working for Al Jazeera.net as a freelance correspondent in Sudan when, sensing that something was brewing in the country, our colleague Shamail Al Noor pitched that we cover the transportation crisis. The department suggested we go further and report on all of the problems the country was facing – from the price of bread to the price of fuel, the currency crisis to the cooking gas crisis.
We were miles ahead of other journalists in doing so and our report aired on December 12, 2018. Seven days later, the revolution was sparked in the city of Atbara, when the headquarters of the ruling party were torched. Not only was I living through the toppling of a 30-year dictatorship, I was reporting on it. As the revolution ignited, everyone wanted to know what had triggered people’s anger and made thousands of Sudanese take to the streets.
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