The US says Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken on the phone to Sudan’s deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok following his return home.
Hamdok was arrested and detained during Monday’s military coup.
The US State Department in a statement said Blinken welcomed Hamdok’s release and reiterated his call to the Sudanese armed forces to free all the civilian leaders rounded up in the last 24 hours.
It was gathered that protests against the seizure of power by the military continued into the night, with crowds in the capital Khartoum marching and blocking main roads.
Earlier, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan sought to justify the coup by accusing political groups of inciting civilians against the security forces.
In another development, the Head of the Electoral Commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Denis Kadima has been sworn-in amid controversy over his nomination. Kadima takes over as President of the Independent National Electoral Commission, CENI with the heavy task of organising the next elections by 2023. His appointment has not been a unanimous decision, with religious groups, who are supposed to nominate CENI members by consensus, disagreeing.
