Article: Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim: ... a Sudanese activist who has long campaigned for women's rights in her country.

FATIMA IBRAHIM is a fighter and it shows. A Muslim, a former Member of Parliament in Sudan and president of the banned Sudanese Women's Union, she has a long history as an outspoken defender of human rights in her country. Now in her early sixties, she crackles with energy as she denounces the Islamic fundamentalists whose regime, she says, has turned her homeland into a wartorn, shattered nation.

`These Islamic extremists are nothing but parasites,' she says, her voice quivering with anger. `They claim to govern on behalf of God and yet they do nothing but enrich themselves. I can give you names; some of my own relatives who were very poor are now very rich. They ...

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