Nine years after a Sudanese judge oversaw her flogging, Halima Abdalla remains broken and bitter, accusing even her family of rejecting her when it mattered most. “Flogging breaks you from inside,” said Abdalla, 41, her voice choking and tears rolling down her cheeks as she narrated an ordeal that remains forensically imprinted on her mind. Nearly a year after a nationwide protest movement erupted against autocrat Omar al-Bashir — and more than seven months since his three-decade tenure was terminated by the army — women like Abdalla dare to hope for a violence-free future.
