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Football returns to war-torn Sudan
Gulf Today
|July 08, 2025
League football has returned to war-torn Sudan for the first time in more than two years with a one-month competition being organised for eight clubs to determine the country’s champions.
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Sudan has been in the grip of conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, with more than 150,000 people killed and about 12 million uprooted, creating the largest displacement crisis in the world.
Among them have been the country’s biggest clubs Al Hilal and Al Merrikh, who between them have won all but four of the championships since the league was created in 1965.
This story is from the July 08, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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