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Sudan
Hamdok's hesitations prove to be his undoing

Sudan's ousted prime minister Abdalla Hamdok. © Mohamed Khidir/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

After a little over two years in power, Sudan's prime minister was removed after a military coup. He was known for taking the need for consensus to the extreme. [...]

Published on 28.10.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 4 minutes Antoine Galindo

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