The World - News from April 16, 1986

With more than half the districts reporting, two centrist parties were leading in Sudan’s first general elections in 18 years, the official Sudan News Agency said. The 5.9 million registered voters in Africa’s largest country were given two weeks, starting April 1, to go to the polls. At stake are 264 seats in the Constituent Assembly. With votes counted in 162 districts, the centrist Umma Party led with 70 seats, followed by the centrist Democratic Unionist Party with 54 seats.