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CORRECTION: CORRECTS TITLE AND NAME TO SUDANESE ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER OMAR QAMAR AL-DIN - Sudanese acting Foreign Minister Omar Qamar al-Din, center right, welcomes Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, center left, upon his arrival to Khartoum Airport. in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. The prince's visit is the first by the Kingdom's top diplomat since Sudan's military overthrew former autocratic leader President Omar al-Bashir last year. (AP Photo / Marwan Ali)

Top Saudi diplomat on 1st Sudan visit since al-Bashir ouster

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

The head of Sudan's sovereign council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, seated center-left, President of South Sudan Salva Kiir, seated center, and President of Chad Idriss Deby, seated center-right, attend a ceremony to sign a peace deal between Sudan's transitional authorities and a rebel alliance, in Juba, South Sudan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Sudan's transitional authorities and a rebel alliance on Saturday signed the peace deal initialed in August that aims to put an end to the country's decades-long civil wars, in a televised ceremony in Juba, South Sudan marking the agreement. (AP Photo/Maura Ajak)

Rebel leaders who inked deal with government return to Sudan

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

A demonstrators gives the victory sign at a protest, in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Protesters have taken to the streets in the capital and across the country over dire living conditions and a deadly crackdown on demonstrators in the east earlier this month. Sudan is currently ruled by a joint civilian-military government, following the popular uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir last year. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudanese return to streets over dire living conditions

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

This satellite image shows the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile river in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Ethiopia's prime minister on Wednesday, July 22, 2020 hailed the first filling of the massive dam that has led to tensions with Egypt, saying two turbines will begin generating power next year. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Sudan PM, Egyptian official meet amid tensions over Nile dam

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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2017 file photo, then Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Ghandour speaks during the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, Sudanese protesters returned to the streets to pressure transitional authorities, demanding justice for those killed in the uprising last year that led to the military’s ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir. Ghandour, head of the now dissolved National Congress Party, was arrested Monday from his Khartoum home, the party said in a statement. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Protesters return to Sudan streets, calling for more reforms

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

This Jan. 12, 2020 photo shows 22-year-old Mayada, a tea vendor 7-months pregnant with twins, the result of a gang-rape by Sudanese security forces, in Khartoum, Sudan. Dozens of women were raped on June 3, 2019 as security forces attacked a sit-in protest camp in Khartoum, according to activists’ counts. Mayada wanted to end the pregnancy, but a pharmacist refused to sell her pills to cause an abortion. She hurt herself, lifting heavy objects and throwing herself off furniture, hoping for a miscarriage. She gave birth in March to a daughter, while the other twin, a boy, died. She doesn’t know the names of the men who raped her, much less which is the father. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

A year later, Sudanese raped in crackdown wait for justice

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Ethiopia and Sudan urge cooperation to stop border violence

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

In this Aug. 21, 2019, file photo, Sudan's new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks during a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan. Sudan's state media Monday, March 9, 2020, says Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt after a blast in the capital Khartoum. (AP Photo, File)

Abdalla Hamdok, Sudan’s PM, survives assassination attempt in capital

By Sam Magdy - Associated Press

People chant slogans to protest Sudanese President of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan's contentious decision to meet Israel's prime minister last week in a move toward normalizing relations, in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudan seeks U.S. aid after Omar al-Bashir ouster

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 28, 2013 file photo, the Blue Nile river flows near the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethopia. Two days of negotiations between top officials from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan were hoped to reach agreements on technical issues related to the $4.6 billion dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River, but the talks concluded Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020 without an agreement. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare, File)

3 African nations meet to draft deal on Nile dam dispute

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Sudan says at least 23 killed in factory fire

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 10, 2010 file photo, Sudanese women looks through a bus window as it passes posters supporting then Sudanese President and presidential candidate Omar al-Bashir, right, and his ruling National Congress Party candidates, in Khartoum, Sudan. Activists are calling for mass protests in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere across the country to demand the disbanding of the National Congress Party. The Sudanese Professionals' Association, which spearheaded the uprising against Bashir's rule, said the protests Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, will also renew demands to step up an independent investigation into the deadly break-up of protests in June. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Thousands protest in Sudan, call to disband ex-ruling party

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this Sept. 4, 2019 photo, Sudanese activist Khalda Saber, poses for a photograph at her apartment, in Cairo, Egypt. Saber, a mother of two, was one of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese women who risked their lives leading protests that eventually pushed the military to overthrow al-Bashir in April. Under a joint military-civilian council in power now, they hope for more freedom and equality, and seek to overturn many of the restrictive Islamic laws from the previous era. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

In new Sudan, women want more freedom, bigger political role

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 file photo, Sudan's new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks during a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan. Hamdok said in the interview that ending his country's international pariah status and resolving violent internal conflicts are prerequisites for rescuing a faltering economy. Hamdok told The Associated Press that he has already talked to U.S. officials about removing Sudan from Washington’s list of countries sponsoring terrorism and described the reaction as positive. (AP Photo, File)

AP Interview: Sudan PM seeks end to country’s pariah status

By JUSTIN LYNCH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 file photo, Sudan's new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks during a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan. Hamdok said in the interview that ending his country's international pariah status and resolving violent internal conflicts are prerequisites for rescuing a faltering economy. Hamdok told The Associated Press that he has already talked to U.S. officials about removing Sudan from Washington’s list of countries sponsoring terrorism and described the reaction as positive. (AP Photo, File)

AP Interview: Sudan PM seeks end to country’s pariah status

By JUSTIN LYNCH - Associated Press

In this June 15, 2019 file photo, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, salutes during a rally, in Galawee, northern Sudan. Dagalo, a paramilitary commander from Darfur widely known as Hemedti, has emerged as Sudan’s main power broker in the months since the military overthrew President Omar al-Bashir. As the military and protest leaders work to hash out a final agreement on the country’s future, Hemedti’s rise, and the growing resistance to it, could plunge the country into further chaos. (AP Photo, File)

A new strongman in Sudan? Experts aren’t so sure

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this Friday, July 5, 2019, file photo, Sudanese people celebrate in the streets of Khartoum after ruling generals and protest leaders announced they have reached an agreement on the disputed issue of a new governing body. The power-sharing agreement reached between Sudan’s military and pro-democracy protesters last week came after the United States and its Arab allies applied intense pressure on both sides amid fears a prolonged crisis could tip the country into civil war, activists and officials said. (AP Photo/File)

Sudanese military, protesters sign power-sharing document

By Sam Magdy - Associated Press

In this Friday, July 5, 2019, file photo, Sudanese people celebrate in the streets of Khartoum after ruling generals and protest leaders announced they have reached an agreement on the disputed issue of a new governing body. The power-sharing agreement reached between Sudan’s military and pro-democracy protesters last week came after the United States and its Arab allies applied intense pressure on both sides amid fears a prolonged crisis could tip the country into civil war, activists and officials said. (AP Photo/File)

Sudan activists call for ‘justice’ for killed protesters

By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Sudanese protesters shout slogans as they block the road in front of riot police and an army convoy, during a demonstration against the military council, in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, June 30, 2019. Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Sudan's capital and elsewhere in the country calling for civilian rule nearly three months after the army forced out long-ruling autocrat Omar al-Bashir. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Sudan protesters resume talks with army over transition

By FAY ABUELGASIM and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Sudanese protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against the ruling military council, in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, June 30, 2019. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets on Sunday in Sudan's capital and elsewhere in the country calling for civilian rule, nearly three months after the army forced out the autocrat Omar al-Bashir. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Sudan protesters at a crossroads after deadly crackdown

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press