Only upper and middle class women living in Khartoum and a few main cities benefited from the disbanding of the public order (morality police) even though they were not as targeted as poor women from the outskirts of the city+ women in informal sector, but there is more

The public order police continues to operate and exclusively targets women in the informal sector while wealthier women are enjoying their shisha in cafes + taking advantage of less restrictions on their dress code.

It gets more interesting. At the joint meeting btw COM and SC, one of the women did not vote to repel the public order articles. This speaks more on class and how it shields you from some experiences. We experience everyday sexism differently depending on our place in society

I find it baffling but not surprising that the calls to reinstate the public order articles and police are mostly from men and women from wealthier neighborhoods. They use the same rhetoric as the Bashir regime and believe that there is ‘too much freedom’ right now

So the demography that has enjoyed freedoms in the past and is now reaping the benefits feels that the police should ‘police’ the behavior of women they do not relate to and of-course migrants.

For this reason, the protests and public talks happening in Amarat are very critical and we have to pay attention to the narrative development around class, return of public order and policing of migrants