News24.com|Sudan's previous PM Sadiq al-Mahdi dies of coronavirus

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Sudan’s former prime minister and leading opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi died from a coronavirus infection on Thursday, his party stated.

The 84- year-old was the nation’s last democratically chosen prime minister prior to he was fallen in 1989 by now-ousted president Omar al-Bashir in an Islamist-backed military coup.

The leader of the moderate Islamist National Umma Party was transferred to the United Arab Emirates for treatment 3 weeks ago after being hospitalised in Sudan and testing positive for Covid-19

” We provide our acknowledgements to the Sudanese individuals over his death,” the celebration stated in a statement.

Mahdi was a strong opposition figure throughout Bashir’s long guideline and threw his weight behind a mass-protest movement that eventually prompted the military to topple the president last year.

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