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Sudan’s army-aligned government on Saturday spurned an invitation to an east African summit and rebuked the United Nations for engaging with the commander of rival paramilitary forces. Nine months after war broke out between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the army has been losing territory while paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo has been touring African capitals in a boost to his diplomatic standing. Rejecting the invitation from east African bloc IGAD to a summit in Uganda on January 18 that is also to be attended by Daglo, Sudan’s transitional sovereign co…

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