Kandake of the Sudanese Revolution

[6][7] Hundreds of thousands of people protested and converged at the headquarters, where the security forces and military appeared to be divided in their allegiances.

[9] On the morning of 8 April, the army and secret services faced off at the headquarters, resulting in six deaths, 57 injuries, and 2,500 arrests in Khartoum over the weekend.

"[12] On the same day, Lana Haroun took four images, using her smartphone (Huawei Mate 10, back camera, HDR technic),[13] of an initially unknown woman dressed in a white thoub standing on top of a car, who spoke to and sang with other women around her during a sit-in near the army headquarters and the presidential palace.

[14] A line from Sudanese poet, Azhari Mohamed Ali's poem[15] recited by the woman, "The bullet doesn't kill.

[18] According to Nesrine Malik from The Guardian, the image captured the energy and determination of the Sudanese people as they called for political change and social justice.

[32] The armed forces of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, headed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), used heavy gunfire and tear gas to disperse the sit-in by protesters, killing 112 and injuring more than 700 protesters, and destroying the peaceful atmosphere of the sit-in.

[37] Alaa Salah (Arabic: آلاء صلاح, pronunciation: [ʔaːˈlaːʔ sˤɑˈlaːħ]), born 9 March 1997, was 22 at the time when the photo was taken and a student studying engineering and architecture at Sudan International University in Khartoum.

[40][41][15] Salah co-wrote the book The song of revolt - The Sudanese uprising told by its icon (French: Le chant de la révolte : le soulèvement soudanais raconté par son icône) with Martin Roux, providing her personal account of the Sudanese revolution.

[42] As a member of MANSAM, one of the main Sudanese women's networks that signed the 1 January 2019 Forces of Freedom and Change declaration, Salah was later invited to give a speech at the 29 October 2019 meeting of the United Nations Security Council.