FILE - In this file image taken from video, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir speaks at the Presidential Palace, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in Khartoum, Sudan. He lost a third of his country, a quarter of its population and most of its oil resources when South Sudan broke away. After years of promising to hold his country together amid disputes with the oil-rich south, al-Bashir quickly accepted the referendum results in 2010 that created one of the world’s newest countries, South Sudan. When economic hardship deepened after the split with South Sudan, protests inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings broke out in the country as early as 2012. The caption: “I will get down, but just tell me where to get down.”_____El Deeb covered Sudan from 2008 to 2010.

Source: Washington Post April 11, 2019 22:13 UTC