Meet the 22-year-old student Alaa Salah who went viral in depicting the role women played in the Sudan uprising

Meet the 22-year-old woman student of engineering and architecture Alaa Salah who went viral in depicting the role women in the Sudan Uprising that has just led to the toppling of the country’s long serving President Omar al-Bashir.

The young Sudanese woman passionately led chants in a nationwide anti-government protest went viral, and has already become an iconic image of the powerful role that women are playing in the movement.

The image quickly went viral as people tweeted the image, praising Sudanese women for taking charge in the demonstrations. Some claimed that the photo of Salah belonged in history books.

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