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US, Saudi Arabia broker talks to break Sudan's coup deadlock

Thanks to US and Saudi mediation, Sudan's coup leaders held talks for the first time with the government they deposed last year.

Head of the Sudan Liberation Movement and governor of Darfur Mini Minawi (L).
Head of the Sudan Liberation Movement and governor of Darfur Mini Minawi (L) and head of the Justice and Equality Movement and Finance Minister Gibril Ibrahim (C), as well as other political leaders, hold a conference entitled the National Consensus Charter of the Forces of Freedom and Change Khartoum, on Oct. 2, 2021. The ceremony came as Sudan reels from fragmentation within the Forces of Freedom and Change, an alliance that spearheaded protests that ousted President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. — ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images

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