SUDANESE trickled to the polls at the start of a 10-day election that incumbent Islamist President Omar al-Beshir and his party look set to win because of a massive opposition boycott. All Sudan’s main opposition parties, most of which are involved in a civil war with Beshir’s government, were boycotting the vote to protest against a “totalitarian regime” they say has no mandate to rule or organise elections after it seized power in a 1989 military coup. – AFP