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Despite Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s release, there are still many unknowns for Sudan’s democratic transition.

The Atlantic The Capitol Rioters Weren’t ‘Low Class’ The business owners, real-estate brokers, and service members who rioted acted not out of economic desperation, but out of their belief in their inviolable right to rule. January 12, 2021 Updated at 2:20 p.m. ET on March 25, 2021. The mob that breached the Capitol last week at President Donald Trump’s exhortation, hoping to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, was full of what you might call “respectable people.�...

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