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FILE - In this Monday, April 13, 2015, file photo, Sudanese women wait for their turn to vote outside a polling station, on the first day of Sudan’s presidential and legislative elections, in Izba, an impoverished neighborhood on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan. The district has suffered from years of neglect. Public transport doesn’t reach the area so most have to take three or four different transports to commute to jobs. There’s a single medical clinic in the area, no hospitals, and few people have the public health insurance. The neighborhood got its first paved road _ running through the Arab section _ just two months before this week’s election. Residents saw it as a sop from a president who has otherwise ignored them and other poor. (Mosa’ab Elshamy, File/Associated Press) By Associated Press April 16 at 2:20 PM
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Polls have closed in Sudan’s presidential and legislative elections, with President Omar al-Bashir expected to extend his 25-year rule following an opposition boycott of the vote.
Polling centers closed at 7:00 p.m. (1600 GMT) Thursday and ballot counting will start on Friday. Results are expected on April 27.
Nearly 13 million people were registered to vote at some 11,000 polling centers.
Polling centers were largely deserted in the capital Khartoum during the vote, which began Monday and was extended for an extra day.
Ibrahim Ghandour, a top presidential aide, says the government is “quite satisfied with the turnout of the people.”
Al-Bashir clung to power through the economically crippling secession of oil-rich South Sudan, and is the only sitting world leader wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges.
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Polls close in Sudan's presidential, legislative elections
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