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“This is the first time people take to the streets in many years but I am not sure if it will be the last,”

The protests come on the back of Mohamed Aly, a disgruntled exiled Egyptian businessman, demanding the toppling of Sisi.

Kais Saied advances to the next round with 18.85 of votes, while Nabil Kaorui advances second with 15.7% of votes cast

Le Drian was in Khartoum for a one-day visit, the first such trip to Sudan by France’s top diplomat in more than a decade.

Turnout was reported by the elections commission (ISIE) to be 45 percent, down from 64 percent recorded in the 2014 polls

Demonstrators are demanding key regime figures step down and an overhaul of political institutions before any polls

Tunisia has been praised as a rare success story for democratic transition after the Arab Spring regional uprisings

South Sudan split from the north in 2011 after decades of bloody war with Khartoum, famously becoming the world’s youngest nation

Dozens of people died from acute diarrhoea in Sudan in 2016 after thousands of cases were reported nationwide

Three pilgrims, including a woman, were among four civilians wounded, said Wedad Abu Niran