She was in 1973 one of the first women to hold political office in the Sudan, and she contested the April 2010 Sudanese general election as the country's first female presidential candidate.
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In April 2010 Sudan held its first fully contested elections (i.e. the first to include candidates from opposition parties) since 1986.
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