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Description acceptable. In 2022, this organization negotiated building a Russian naval base in a port where the National Public Health Laboratory moved during a 2021 dengue outbreak. Bentley Brown’s film Revolution From Afar depicts murals painted outside this group’s headquarters, (-5[1])where “resistance committees” chanted “100 percent civil” during Ramadan. “Riverine Arabs” like the Shaigiya (“shy-GHEE-yuh”) dominate this group, (10[1])which negotiated a 2019 power-sharing agreement with unions from the Forces of Freedom and Change and retook the Heglig oilfield north of Abyei (“abby-yay”). This group has [emphasize] failed to integrate (-5[1])a paramilitary (10[1])that sells (10[1])the Jebel (10[1])Amir’s gold and takes deadly Saudi postings in Yemen. (-5[1])This group deposed Abdalla Hamdok as chair (-5[1])of the Transitional (-5[1])Sovereignty Council in a 2021 (-5[1])coup. For 10 points, what group led by Abdel Fattāḥ al-Burhān is fighting (-5[1])Hemedti’s Rapid (10[2])Support Forces in Darfur? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[13])

ANSWER: Sudan Armed Forces [or Sudanese army, military forces of Sudan, SAF, Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha as-Sudaniyah, or equivalents; accept General Command; accept Republic of the Sudan or Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān in place of “Sudan”; prompt on army or military by asking “of what country?”; prompt on Transitional Sovereignty Council, TSC, Transitional Military Council, or TMC until “Transitional” is read; prompt on Sudan’s (transitional) government or equivalents; reject “Sudanese People’s Liberation Army”]
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2148%0%33%113.10

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Michael DuWaterlooToronto B39-5
Chinmay MurthyTexasChicago A5610
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Charles HangWUSTL ANYU9010
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Justin WytmarIllinoisClaremont Colleges129-5
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Michal GerasimiukStanfordVanderbilt13110
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Max HodesChicago CColumbia A1360
Dean Ah NowClaremont CollegesIllinois1360
Hayden PratherFloridaKentucky1360
Jake GreerHarvardDuke13610
David BassJohns HopkinsRutgers13610
Caleb KendrickMarylandYale B1360
Urbas EkkaMinnesota BChicago B1360
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Fred GarveyTruman StatePenn13610
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