ATBARA, Sudan - Standing on the platform where he and other protesters packed a train to Khartoum in April to pressure Sudan’s military to share power with civilians, Abdelaziz Abdallah made clear the revolution driven by their city has much further to go.
People in Atbara, a colonial-era railway hub, support the national government in the capital some 350 km to the south, but say some of the main grievances which drove their uprising - poor salaries and unemployment - remain. Able to meet freely since bans on gatherings were lifted with Bashir’s fall, they discuss issues such as how to create jobs for the youth by trying to find farmland to grow crops.
“I hope to get a job as engineer,” said Mohamed Abdelathim, jobless since 2007. “State jobs under the were for regime people,” he said.Atbara, at the junction of the Nile and Atbara rivers, has been a barometer for Sudan since British colonialists established a railway hub here, building dozens of villas to house railway managers which now lie empty.
Sudan has had only three brief three civilian governments, all toppled by generals who took over after saying that civilians had failed to fix an economy in crisis.
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