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Sudan's women's football team are playing an international match at a stadium in Khartoum.

This was impossible a few years ago.

Dictator Omar al-Bashir had banned women from playing football.

But al-Bashir's rule ended in 2019.

The women's national team was set up a month later.

Progress hasn't been easy.

Training, and their match against Algeria, had to be cancelled when the military took power again in October 2021.

Problems have continued, as coach Salma al-Majidi explains.

The military takeover by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan caused further worries.

Women were afraid that the ban on women's football would return.

But the military's promised to exit politics after next year's elections.

And it hasn't stopped women playing.

The young Sudan team haven't won any matches yet.

They played well against South Sudan.

But they were beaten 6-nil.

South Sudan player Amy Lasu was pleased to play the Sudan team.

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