Sudan Protests

From the Archives: World Press Photo contest 2022

A protester throws back a tear-gas canister that had been fired by security forces, during a march demanding an end to military rule, in Khartoum, Sudan, on 30 December 2021.

On 30 December, demonstrators marched through Khartoum, and the neighboring cities of Omdurman and Bahri, demanding that political power be transferred to civilian authorities. The protests were brutally suppressed. Reuters reported that five people were killed in the protests. The military had seized control in a coup on 25 October, dissolved the transitional government, and detained its prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok. The photographer is Sudanese and took part in early protests following the military coup, and then channeled his activities into photojournalism.