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Sudanese band Aswat al-Madina, which performed for thousands at Khartoum democracy protests, has reunited in Cairo after war scattered its members across continents. Al-Monitor reported that guitarist Mohamed al-Mustafa, known as Timon, and his bandmates have returned to recording and live performance in the Egyptian capital after revolution, war and displacement. According to Al-Monitor, the band was founded in Khartoum in 2014 and sang about corruption, social injustice and authoritarian rule, becoming a soundtrack to the 2018 uprising against Omar al-Bashir. Two days before fighting erupted between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, the band was planning its next performance. Al-Monitor reported that the band lost its equipment and studio when looters struck, then fled Sudan with little more than backpacks and laptops, with Timon reaching the United Arab Emirates and others settling in Egypt and elsewhere in Africa. The band's first Cairo concert since the war began took place in August, and it now hopes to tour internationally and is recording a new version of "Nos Kobayet Shai Bi'Aisha" with an Egyptian-Nubian collaborator.