Leading Sudanese politician and former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi died from a coronavirus infection three weeks after being hospitalized in the United Arab Emirates, according to family sources and a party statement early on Thursday.
Mahdi, 84, was Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister and was overthrown in 1989 in the military coup that brought former President Omar al-Bashir to power.
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Last month, al-Mahdi's family said he had tested positive for COVID-19, and was transferred to the UAE for treatment a few days later following a brief hospitalization in Sudan.
