BREAKING NEWS: US Embassy in Sudan shelters in place as gunfire, explosions rock capital
Military vehicles can be seen as smoke bellows above buildings in the vicinity of the Khartoum airport on April 15, 2023, amid clashes in the city.
The 2021 coup removed a Western-backed, power-sharing administration and dashed Sudanese aspirations for democratic rule after three decades of autocracy and repression under al-Bashir.
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