THE CRY rippled through the crowd in the early hours of April 11th, accompanied by the beating of drums and blasts on whistles: "It has fallen. We have won." And, so it appears, they have. Almost exactly 30 years after Omar al-Bashir seized power in a bloodless coup, shunting aside his democratically elected predecessor, the man who did so much to wreck Sudan has himself been toppled. His fall marks the culmination of four months of almost ceaseless protests against one of Africa's longest-ruling tyrants. "In spite of all hurdles and hardships, it is over," said Ahmed Elyas, an engineer in Khartoum who was in the crowd. "We won."
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