FILE PHOTO: Leading Sudanese opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi talks during an interview with Reuters in KhartoumKHARTOUM: Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister, Sadiq al-Mahdi, who was overthrown in the 1989 military coup that brought Omar al-Bashir to power, has died from a coronavirus infection, his party said on Thursday .Advertisement
Sudan's transitional administration, which governs under a power sharing deal between the military and civilian groups, declared three days of mourning. In a statement, the Umma Party said Mahdi would be buried on Friday morning in the city of Omdurman in Sudan.Mahdi had returned to Sudan in December 2018, following a year-long self-exile, just as protests over worsening economic conditions and Bashir's rule gathered steam. His daughter Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, deputy leader of the Umma Party, was among those detained during the demonstrations.
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