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(23 Feb 2015) A wrestling competition has been held between Japan and Sudan in Khartoum.
A Japanese Olympic wrestler took on a local competitor in front of a packed stadium in the Sudanese capital.

Kusuki Songawa arrives at the Balhaj Youssef wrestling ring in Khartoum.
Known as 'Sona', the Japanese wrestler will be taking on a Sudanese challenger.
The match has been organised by the Japanese embassy to reinforce relations between the two nations.
Sona and Al Baqer Abu Bakr - also known as 'Kerry'- enter the ring.
Both countries' national anthems are played in the build-up to the wrestling.
The audience is packed with Sudanese and foreign spectators, including Japanese people who live in Sudan.
There's a party atmosphere as the two opponents get ready to wrestle.
A bell rings to signal the start of the match and the wrestlers begin the battle.
Soma and Kerry grapple in front of an excited crowd.
Sona attempts to tackle his Sudanese opposition to the ground, but the local man is too strong.
Kerry is declared the winner of the wrestling match.
Despite his defeat, Sona has future plans to work with his Sudanese competitors.
He's going to train them in the rules and techniques of Olympic wrestling so Sudan can enter a team in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Sona is interested to see how they develop.
"After I leave Sudan I want to see the Sudanese wrestler of the future," he says.
Kerry trained for a month ahead of this fight.
He says: "For me, it was an easy round because I usually wrestle wrestlers bigger than the Japanese wrestler."
The Japanese spectators are not happy with today's result.
"I'm very disappointed. Very. I'm shocked. It's awful," says one Japanese man.
People from all over the world have come to watch the match.
A European woman says: "It was great to see so many people enthusiastic. And it's amazing that Japan and Sudan are competing together as friends and there's plenty people from different countries here to see it."
Traditional Nubian wrestling is popular among tribes living in the Nubian mountains.
Hassan Mohamed Ali, Head of the Wrestling Union, thinks today's match shows how the sport is important across the world.
"The Sudanese wrestler Kerry won over the Olympic wrestler Sona which indicates that the Sudanese wrestling spread around the world," he says.
"The sport that originated from the Nubian mountains, it spread until it became part of the international heritage," Ali adds.
Sona is the second Japanese wrestler to compete at the Balhaj Youssef wrestling ring.
Japanese diplomat Yasso Hiro, known as the barefoot diplomat, also fought here in 2013.


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