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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.

Gun violence in Mexico is on the rise and one factor is making it worse.

Weapons streaming in from the north. In fact, an American-made gun is more likely to be involved in a Mexican murder than in an American one.

And Muhammad Saleh plays football. Well, soccer if you must. For Liverpool, which won the Champions League final this weekend.

He is a superstar striker who's also well known as a devout Muslim.

And new research suggests that his fame is actually lowering levels of hate crime and Islamophobia.

First up, though.

It's been a week of turmoil for Sudan. Its people's hopes for democracy are under threat again.

On Monday, security forces stormed a pro-democracy protest camp in the Capitol, Cartoon.

After two days of unrest, scores are dead and hundreds injured.

In the wake of this brutal crackdown, the country's military leaders announced yesterday they had cancelled all agreements with the main opposition alliance and called snap elections.

The opposition rejected the military's plan to hold polls within nine months.

After four months of popular protests against the authoritarian rule of President Omar Alba Shire, Sudan's military staged a coup in April.

Military leaders had agreed to a managed three-year transition to civilian rule.

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