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Sudan capital locked down after coup triggers deadly unrest

Protesters block a road during what the information ministry calls a military coup in Khartoum, Sudan. [Reuters]

Roads were blocked, shops were shut, phones were down and mosque loudspeakers blared calls for a general strike in Sudan on Tuesday, a day after the army seized power in a coup.

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