The 22-year-old Alaa Salah stands on a car leading chants during a protest demanding that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir step down in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 8, 2019, in this still image taken from a social-media video obtained on April 9. #

A Sudanese protester shows bullet cartridges as others gather in front of security forces during a demonstration near the military headquarters in Khartoum on April 8, 2019. #

Sudanese protesters rally in front of the military headquarters in Khartoum on April 8, 2019. The writing on the placard reads in Arabic: "Leave o Bashir. Thirty years and you've destroyed the country and its people." Sudan's army deployed around its Khartoum headquarters Monday as thousands of protesters urging the military to join calls for al-Bashir's resignation defied tear gas to demonstrate for a third day, witnesses said. #

A Sudanese woman with her face painted with "Just fall, that's all" in Arabic flashes the victory gesture during an anti-government demonstration in Khartoum on April 9, 2019. #

Alaa Salah, a Sudanese woman propelled to internet fame earlier in the week after clips went viral of her leading powerful protest chants against President Omar al-Bashir, addresses protesters in Khartoum on April 10, 2019. Dubbed "Kandaka," or "Nubian queen," online, she has become a symbol of the protests, which she says have traditionally had a female backbone in Sudan. #

Sudanese people chant slogans on April 11, 2019, as massive crowds of jubilant Sudanese people thronged squares and streets in central Khartoum ahead of an "important announcement" by the army, an Agence France-Presse photographer witnessed. People hugged one another, waved Sudanese flags, and exchanged sweets as they awaited the announcement. #

Sudanese Defense Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf makes an announcement in Sudan in this still image taken from a video on April 11, 2019. The announcement declared that President Omar al-Bashir had been detained "in a safe place" and that a military council would run the country for a two-year transitional period. #

A Sudanese demonstrator chants slogans as protesters gather in a street in central Khartoum on April 11, 2019, immediately after one of Africa's longest-serving presidents was toppled by the army. Organizers of the protests for the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir rejected the toppling as a "coup conducted by the regime," and vowed to keep up their campaign. #

Sudanese demonstrators lift the national flag onto a building in Khartoum after Sudanese Defense Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf said that President Omar al-Bashir had been detained on April 11, 2019. #

Sudanese demonstrators gather in central Khartoum on April 11, 2019, after one of Africa's longest-serving presidents was toppled by the army. Opposition groups have called on protesters to remain in the streets until power is handed over to a civilian government that reflects the will of the revolution. #