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Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is shown standing behind a microphone and wearing a suit and red tie.

Sudan signs pact on normalizing ties with Israel

Global Politics

Sudan on Wednesday said it had signed an agreement with the United States that paves the way for the cash-strapped African nation to normalize relations with Israel and clear some of its massive debt to the World Bank.

Riot police walk along Mohamed Mahmoud Street, near Cairo's Tahrir Square, in front of murals representing people killed during Egypt's uprising.

Four years after a ‘revolution,’ Egypt is back to square one

Conflict
Egypt's TV satirist, Bassem Youssef, said his show had been cancelled amid speculation it was because his latest script poked fun at a presidential election won by the former army chief .Bassem Youssef is often referred to as the "Egyptian Jon Stewart."

The man touted as Egypt’s Jon Stewart goes off the air

Global Politics
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