CAIRO – Three decades ago, a little-known army officer named Omar Hassan al-Bashir seized power in Sudan, ushering in a long period of brutal rule that would push the sprawling African country into a series of destabilizing wars, paralyzing its economy. and the result in humiliating international isolation. Mr. al-Bashir …
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