Saudi women driving ban ends as thousands expected to take the wheel

A ban on women driving has been lifted in Saudi Arabia in a move that has been hailed as historic.

Source: AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty

Saudi Arabia allowed women to drive from Sunday, overturning the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform that is expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

The lifting of the ban, which follows a sweeping crackdown on women activists, is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's reform drive to modernise the conservative petrostate.

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