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04/06/2019 GMT

Sudan military calls snap election after crackdown

BBC World Service - World Update, Sudan military calls snap election after crackdown

Sudanese military calls for elections within nine months

Sudan's interim military leaders say agreements with the civilian opposition on a transitional government are being scrapped. 

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan promised that elections would take place within nine months under international supervision. The opposition has been pushing for a rapid transition to civilian rule.

Also on the programme: We remember pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square; and Apple is to shut down its iTunes music download service, eighteen years after it was launched

(Photo: Protesters set ablaze tyres to try to stop Sudan's security forces, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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