A military coup d'etat in Sudan has ended Omar al-Bashir's 30-year rule.
This is the sixth coup the country's military have led since independence in 1956. The military were pressured into the coup by the country's third major civilian uprising. Historically, the two most famous uprisings were the October Revolution of 1964, which ushered out Sudan's first military regime, and the April Intifada of 1985, which ousted the second.
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