Amid reports of low voter turnout in Sudan, the overwhelming mood among Sudanese voters at home and abroad appears to be unprecedented apathy.
The head of the African Union (AU) observer mission and former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, estimated that only about one-third of eligible voters had cast their ballot. The mission's presence comes despite an African Union pre-election assessment report which concluded that "the necessary conditions and environment for the holding of transparent, competitive, free and fair elections, as agreed in the AU principles governing democratic elections, have not been satisfied".
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