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       FILE PHOTO: Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Ahmed Abdelaziz Ghandour talks to the press during a joint news conference with Qatar's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Khartoum, Sudan March 11, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

       KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Ibrahim Ghandour, head of Sudan’s former ruling National Congress Party and a former foreign minister under deposed President Omar al-Bashir, has been released from prison, a family source told Reuters.

       Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz; Editing by Giles Elgood

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