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Sudan
Khartoum's closed embassies find ways to get back to work

Smoke billows over buildings in southern Khartoum on 29 May 2023, amid ongoing fighting between the forces of two rival generals. © AFP

As fighting continues between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan's capital city, some diplomatic missions are being forced to find alternative ways of resuming their activities. Port Sudan and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia are among the preferred options. [...]

Published on 05/07/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Bankole Adeoye, African Union (AU) Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, and Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), talk between themselves as they arrive at the AU headquarters for a meeting of the Extended Mechanism on the Sudan Crisis in Addis Ababa on 2 May 2023.

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Left: The meeting between Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mahamat Idriss Déby on 31 March. Right: Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

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