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How despots in Africa end up on chopping board

Former Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir at a past event. He was ousted on April 11 by the military following public rebellion against his rule.

Inside Sudan’s century-old Kober Prison, Omar al Bashir, the recently deposed despot, is mulling his future.

If reports that he is now a guest in the colonial era prison are true, right now he is carving his name in the walls of his cell inside Kober maximum security prison, just like the man he ousted 30 years ago, Sadiq al Madhi.

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