Sadiq Al Mahdi, Sudan’s last elected prime minister, dies from coronavirus
SMA News – UAE
Leading Sudanese politician and former prime minister Sadiq Al Mahdi died from a coronavirus infection three weeks after being admitted to hospital in the UAE, family sources said on Thursday.
Al 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.
British ambassador to Khartoum, Irfan Siddiq, offered his condolences.
“Shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Imam Alsadiq Almahdi,” he wrote on Twitter.
“A true patriot and leader of the nation. My deepest condolences to all the Sudanese people on this loss.”
Mr Siddiq ended his tweet with the Arabic transliteration for a phrase used among Muslims after someone’s death: “May God have mercy on him. We belong to God and to him we shall return.”
