Since 2004, Mahjoub Sharif had been suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which resulted from the damage caused by the time spent in prison and was further complicated by diabetes type 2.
His funeral was attended by hundreds of Sudanese and broadcast by several major Arabic news channels, among them Sky News Arabia,[REF] Al Jazeera Arabic,[REF] Al Arabiya,[REF] and BBC Arabic [REF].