Sadig Al-Mahdi, Sudan Premier Turned Opposition Head, Dies at 84
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Sadig al-Mahdi, the Sudanese prime minister who was overthrown by dictator Omar al-Bashir and later became the African nation’s most prominent opposition leader, has died. He was 84.
Al-Mahdi died early Thursday in the United Arab Emirates, where he’d traveled for treatment after contracting the coronavirus, the National Umma Party said in a statement.