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Bashir meets NDA leader al-Mahdi

    NAIROBI

    President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has had a meeting in Djibouti with the opposition Umma Party leader and former prime minister, Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudanese television reported. Bashir and other heads of state in the regional Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) were in Djibouti for a summit meeting on Friday and Saturday, during which the conflicts in Sudan and Somalia were expected to dominate the agenda.

    Al-Mahdi, a senior figure in the opposition umbrella National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had been pressurised by NDA allies at a leadership conference in Kampala earlier this week to cancel his then proposed meeting with Bashir. The coalition feared that it would threaten the cohesion of the NDA and that al-Mahdi wanted to make his own deal with the president, news organisations reported.

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