The Sudan Protest Monitor is a powerful spatial and visual archive showing a year of constant protest in Sudan. The monitor maps every major protest in Sudan since the 2021 October coup. It highlights when and where the most violence occurred and it shows what parts of the country were the most active and what days of protest had the most impact. This application preserves the sacrifice and showcases the power of one of the world's longest and largest protest movements. It helps us remember, and illuminates the clear demand by millions of citizens for a civilian led government.

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The Context

The military coup on October 25th, 2021 overthrew Sudan's legitimate civilian government and launched one of the world's longest and largest protest movements. Over the last year, millions of Sudanese turned out on the streets to demand civilian rule on more than 70 days of national protest in more than 54 towns. That's a major protest every 5 days for a year.

The military cracked down, primarily in Khartoum but also in cities like Kassala, Gadarif and El Obeid. Although the protests remained consistently non-violent, the military injured or killed people almost every day there was a protest, averaging 20 injuries a day, and 1.5 people killed, most commonly using bullets and tear gas. Yet the protests continued.

About the Sudan Protest Monitor

The Sudan Protest Monitor is a special project managed by the independent media organization Ayin. SPM monitors the size and location of all major protests as well as violence against civilians by security forces using credible, but largely unverified visual documentation created by citizens across the country. This data is gathered from the Sudanese Archive coup files archive which includes over 100,000 photos and videos. Our medical data comes from the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors. Dozens of civil society groups working across Sudan and internationally also contribute information. The current data set stretches from October. 25th 2021 to October 25th, 2022. We hope to update this data set monthly. All data is openly available upon request.

Support

The Sudan Protest Monitor is a work in progress. We are actively looking for additional videos and photos, major protest days that were not included, and especially protests that we missed outside of Khartoum. We are also working to geolocate, and continuously improve the quality of our data. Submit material or inaccuracies and help us fill in the gaps.

Contact us to partner or with feedback: sudanprotestmonitor@gmail.com

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