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US ties Sudanese army leader's UN visa to ceasefire plan, sources say

By Daphne Psaledakis, Nafisa Eltahir, Antoni Slodkowski and Khalid AbdelazizSept 22 (Reuters) - The United States is withholding a visa for Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ahead of his scheduled UN appearance in a move that Sudanese and other sources say is linked to a US-backed ceasefire proposal that Khartoum has resisted.The dispute, first reported by Reuters, threatens to deepen tensions between Washington and Sudan's army at a critical moment in the civil war, which the United Na

Source: Al-Monitor