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Sudan opposition head backs protesters’ call for Bashir to go
KHARTOUM, Jan 25, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Sudan’s main opposition leader Sadiq
al-Mahdi on Friday called for President Omar al-Bashir to step down, throwing
his support behind anti-government demonstrators after weeks of deadly
protest.
“This regime has to go immediately,” Mahdi told hundreds of worshippers at
a mosque in Omdurman, the twin city of the capital Khartoum, which has seen
near daily anti-government protests.
Mahdi said that since the protests erupted on December 19, “more than 50
people have been killed” in violence during the demonstrations.
BSS/AFP/RY/1908 hrs