Heavyweight Presidential Candidate

The former prime minister of Sudan has announced that he will contest the country's forthcoming presidential election scheduled for April 11, 2010. Sadeq-al-Mahdi, the head of the opposition Umma party, was the last elected leader of the country before being removed from power in a coup led by current President Omar Hassan-al-Bashir in 1989. Addressing the crowd of supporters who gathered to see him register his name for candidacy, he promised to 'dismantle totalitarianism' if elected and implied that he would respect a vote for southern secession if the southerners so decide at a referendum in

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