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Military forces detained Sudan's prime minister in an apparent coup that endangered the country's fragile transition to democracy.

Monday, October 25, 2021 2:53 AM EST

The Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information said the military forces had placed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under house arrest and pressured him to release a "pro-coup statement." After refusing to "endorse the coup," the ministry said, Mr. Hamdok was then moved to "an unknown location."

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