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World Service,12 Apr 2019,53 mins

Protesters defy the new military rulers in Sudan

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Thousands of demonstrators have remained on the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in defiance of an overnight curfew imposed by the military council which deposed President Omar al-Bashir. The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange spent his first night in an English cell, as he faces extradition to the US. We try to find out why students at Georgetown university in the US want to pay slavery reparations.

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