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The government of war-torn Sudan has informed IGAD it is suspending its membership in the east Africa bloc, the foreign ministry loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Saturday. Khartoum had already announced on Tuesday that it was freezing relations with IGAD for inviting paramilitary chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo – at war with Burhan for nine months – to a summit in Uganda that discussed the Sudan conflict. Sudan “is facing one of the fastest unfolding crises globally”, the United Nations humanitarian agency, OCHA, says, with more than 7.4 million people displaced and more than half th…