Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has told the BBC he will step down in 2020, when his current mandate ends.

Bashir has been in power since carrying out a military coup in 1989. He won elections in April last year.

He told the BBC's Thomas Fessy that his job was "exhausting" and his current term would be his last.

"In 2020, there will be a new president and I will be an ex-president," he said.

However, sceptics will say that he had already pledged to step down in the past and later went back on his word, according to BBC's correspondent.

Bashir was re-elected last year with about 94% of the vote in an election boycotted by the main opposition parties who said it was not free and fair.