Al-Hadi Mohammed Ahmed

The last 24 hours have proven to be the most stressful since the Al Jazeera crew arrived in Khartoum to cover the multi-party elections scheduled on April 11.

We and other media outlets were invited to a press conference at the National Elections Commission [NEC] headquarters on Tuesday.

As we arrived we were told that Scott Gration, the US special envoy to Sudan had just left. We waited in the blistering sun for over an hour before Al-Hadi Mohammed Ahmed, member of the NEC announced that the elections will go ahead as scheduled.

I couldn't help but think that in this roller coaster of an election, Ahmed's announcement should come as some relief for the nearly 16 million eligible voters.