Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

When Britain's Parliament undergoes a huge renovation in 2025, its lawmakers will move to an exact replica of their debating chamber.

We take a look at the curious assertion that function follows form, that how the world's parliaments are laid out affects how they operate.

And nearly half of Estonia's adult population has sung at Lollapidou, a huge choral festival.

Singing in the Baltic country is intimately tied to protest and revolution.

And now, populists are trying to get festival goers to sing from their hymn sheets.

But first...

The former president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir,

is in court this week, facing trial on allegations of corruption.

Mr. Bashir governed Sudan for almost 30 years after seizing power in a coup in 1989.

His was a violent autocracy.

In 2009, the International Criminal Court charged him with crimes against humanity and genocide.

In April, he in turn was toppled by a coup, orchestrated by military leaders that surrounded him.

They were responding to months of public protests that started in December,

initially about bread and fuel prices that soon escalated to demands for civilian rule.

We will stay here and we will not move until the regime has left with all its barriers and all its inequality and all its dead.

But after Mr. Bashir's ouster, the military state in power, and demonstrations continued.

In June, a brutal raid on a protest camp left more than a hundred dead.

Sudan seemed stuck in a cycle of uprising and violence.

But this weekend, the leaders of the April coup struck a deal to share power with civilians over a three-year transitional period.

Abdullah Hamdok, an economist, was nominated as Prime Minister.

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