Sudan's ex-president Bashir and ex-defence minister Abdel-Rahim Muhammad Hussein taken to hospital

FILE PHOTO: Sudan's Former President Omar al-Bashir. AP

SUDAN'S jailed former president al-Bashir was transferred yesterday (24 Sep) to a hospital in the town of Merowe, about 330 kilometres (205 miles) north of Khartoum and Sudan's former Defence Minister Abdel-Rahim Muhammad Hussein — who was also arrested soon after al-Bashir — was also transferred to the same facility. 

Allegedly, 80-year-old al-Bashir has been held at a military facility on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. 

Full story by Associated Press (AP): https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/532445.aspx