Alaa Salah, the 'Nubian queen' who stood against Bashir

What you need to know:

  • One of the ‘iconic’ photos taken by local photographer Lana Haroun in Khartoum on Monday shows her standing atop a car with a sea of protesters keenly listening in.
  • Dubbed online as "Kandaka" or Nubian queen, she has become a symbol of the protests which she says have traditionally had a female backbone in Sudan.
  • But late on Wednesday Ms Salah tweeted that she had received "death threats" after her footage went viral.

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