The World - News from April 2, 1986
Sudan’s citizens began voting in the first contested elections in nearly two decades, choosing an assembly that will write a constitution and set up a new civilian government. Officials said the voting will take 12 days because the sparsely populated country has primitive communications and few roads. Elections were promised after a military coup last April.
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