Great reporting from Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed:

It was the image that came to symbolise Sudan’s uprising against longtime former President Omar al-Bashir; engineering and architecture student, Alaa Salah, 22, clad in white and standing on top of a car earlier this month, leading demonstrators in protest chants against al-Bashir’s near-30-year reign.

Salah also represents the fact that, for months, Sudanese women have been at the forefront of protests and sit-ins against al-Bashir.

It is just after the evening prayers in a busy corner of a square near the army headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, and a long queue of protesters – men, women, young and old – has formed in front of a tent where food is cooking in giant pots on open fires.

Full report found at Al Jazeera.