Thousands come out for funeral of former Sudan PM al-Mahdi

CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese came out Friday in the city of Omdurman for the funeral of the country’s last elected prime minister and prominent political party leader Sadiq al-Mahdi, who died of COVID-19. Al-Mahdi’s body arrived earlier in the day from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, where he had been flown to receive medical treatment after testing positive for coronavirus in early November. Al-Mahdi, who was the leader of the…