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Sudan drops terrorism charge on US resident

A Sudanese court dropped charges of forming a terrorist organisation and released two men, one a U.S. resident, on Monday, in one the first trials of people arrested during a spate of anti-government protests that broke out in June.

Sudan avoided the Arab Spring uprisings that unseated rulers in neighbouring Libya and Egypt last year, but austerity measures taken to cope with an economic crisis led to small demonstrations calling for the government to resign.

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