Would you like to see a women’s football league in Sudan?

'A new reality,' said Rayan Ibrahim Rajab, a 22-year-old at training with Tahadi women's football club in Khartoum [Courtesy]

Sudan's first-ever women's club football league will start next month, a federation official told AFP Wednesday.

The championship, which will involve 18 clubs separated in three regions, would have seemed unlikely only a year ago when Islamist general Omar al-Bashir was still in power.