Sudan Frees Farouk Abu Issa Opposition Leader Days before Vote

Sudan opposition leader Farouk Abu Issa was released on Thursday after more than four months in jail in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. The release is a possible conciliatory gesture ahead of elections that nearly all opposition parties are boycotting. Farouk Abu Issa, head of an umbrella group of opposition parties, and prominent human rights lawyer Amin...