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Sudan rights group says raided after opposition unity deal

Security forces raided the Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday, just weeks after jailing its former leader, the monitoring group's leader said, in what activists fear is a widening crackdown ahead of a presidential election in April.

The government has increased pressure on political parties and civil society organisations that have expressed sympathy with armed rebels that it considers traitors.

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