{"id":183787,"date":"2014-12-24T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/darfur-politician-ahmed-direig-returns-to-sudan-after-30-years\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T16:22:00","slug":"darfur-politician-ahmed-direig-returns-to-sudan-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/darfur-politician-ahmed-direig-returns-to-sudan-after-30-years","title":{"rendered":"Darfur politician Ahmed Direig returns to Sudan after 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Darfuri politician Ahmed Ibrahim Direig returned to Sudan on Tuesday, after a self-imposed exile of more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrival at Khartoum airport, the chairman of the Federal Democratic Alliance Party and former governor of Darfur&nbsp;was welcomed by Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman, and Dr Tijani Sese, head of the Darfur Regional Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Direig told reporters in brief remarks at the airport that he was happy to return home after an absence of more than 30 years. &ldquo;I already saw that Khartoum developed much. 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