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Sudan: Prime Minister Hamdok resigns after more mass protests
During the protests over the weekend at least two people were shot dead by security forces.
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned after mass protests rocked the capital Khartoum.
A coalition of parties, rejected on Sunday, the duration of the transition, for a period of five years, proposed by the government to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
We hear a tribute to Richard Leakey, a world-renowned Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter who has died aged 77.
(Photo: Protesters march to the Presidential Palace during a demonstration demanding civilian rule in Khartoum. Credit: Getty Images)
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