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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Sudan’s Burhan Lifts State of Emergency from Coup

In this file photo taken on October 26, 2021 Sudan's top army general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gives a press conference at the General Command of the Armed Forces in Khartoum. (AFP)

Sudan’s leading general lifted a state of emergency Sunday that was imposed in the country following the October coup he led.

The decision by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of Sudan’s ruling sovereign council, came hours after the Security and Defense Council, Sudan’s highest body that decides on security matters, recommended an end to the state of emergency and the release of all detainees.

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