Protest leaders are to hold talks Saturday with Sudan’s military rulers who have so far resisted calls to transfer power to a civilian administration, two leading figures in the protests told AFP. “The military council will hold talks with the Alliance for Freedom and Change at 8:00 pm (1800 GMT) today,” said Siddiq Yousef, a senior member of the umbrella group leading the protest movement. The scheduled talks come a day ahead of plans by protest leaders to announce on Sunday a ruling civilian council that they say will replace the military body. He said if the military rulers refuse to hand over power then the protest leaders will continue with their plans of announcing a “sovereign civilian council” on Sunday. “During these talks we have felt that the military council has no desire to hand over power,” Rabia said.

Source: Punch April 20, 2019 15:11 UTC