Sudan’s last elected leader calls on Britain to help build democracy on the Nile

When Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir was arrested by his own generals and thrown into Khartoum’s notorious Kobar prison last month, one man knew exactly how he felt.

But Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister, was not especially sympathetic.

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“For me it was very… exhilarating,” Mr Mahdi told The Daily Telegraph. “They’ve given me hell for 30 years. So it is quite a feeling of achievement to see that bloodthirsty regime ousted.”

It is an understandable sentiment. Mr Mahdi’s second stint as prime minister of Sudan ended prematurely at 2am on 2 October 1989, when three army officers showed up at his house to arrest him.

There followed threats of court martial and torture,…