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Burhan relieves six Sudanese ambassadors

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has removed six Sudanese ambassadors from their posts, state TV reported on Wednesday.

The decision included Sudan's ambassadors to the United States, the European Union, China, Qatar, France and the head of Sudan's mission to Geneva.

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The move comes as a growing number of Sudanese diplomats came together to reject Burhan's seizure of power.

A group of 41 current and former Sudanese ambassadors and diplomats, in countries including the US, France, and Qatar, have signed a letter in opposition to the military coup.

Several of them have said they would rather quit than work under a military dictatorship. 

"Yes, I think that if the situation doesn't change they will sack us, or we will leave by ourselves," Usama Nuddallah, Sudan's ambassador to South Africa, told MEE.