SUDAN                  

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Context

• Members of Sudan’s cabinet and a large number of pro-government party leaders were arrested in an apparent coup after weeks of tension between the military and a civilian government.

About

• Sudan is situated in northern Africa, with an 853 km coastline bordering the Red Sea.
• It has land borders with Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Chad, and Libya.
• The central and the northern part have extremely dry, desert areas such as the Nubian Desert to the northeast and the Bayuda Desert to the east; in the south, there are grasslands and tropical savanna.
• The dry regions are plagued by sandstorms, known as haboob, which can completely block out the sun.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-happening-in-sudan-7589921/