Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir won 94.5 percent of the vote, in the results that were announced on Monday.
Sudan’s elections, which were held earlier this year, were boycotted by the main opposition parties who felt that the election system favoured Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
The vote came amid the release of Sudan opposition leader Farouk Abu who had spent six months in custody for signing a unity agreement with a rebel group in an alliance that aimed at uniting opposition to President Omar al-Bashir’s 25-year rule.
The opposition shunned the elections in which Bashir’s win was given, citing deteriorating freedoms and a lack of progress towards national reconciliation in Bashir’s term.
In his campaign strategy however, Omar Hassan al-Bashir promised that his government would improve the economy, warning against a change in government while the region is embroiled in violence from Libya to Yemen.
