When Sudan player Ammar Taifour first heard gunfire outside his hotel room, he shrugged it off and went back to sleep. Taifour, a 28-year-old American-Sudanese midfielder, didn't realize the shots marked the beginning a brutal war that would claim tens of thousands of lives and displace millions. “We saw them from the windows all around the hotel holding guns,” Taifour told The Associated Press at the Africa Cup of Nations this week.
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