SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP - Sudan's military council resumes talks with protesters

19/5/19: AP – Sudan’s military council resumes talks with protesters, by Omar Akour and Samy Magdy

AP reports that Sudan’s ruling military council is meeting with protesters on Sunday to discuss the country’s political transition after talks were halted for three days while roads were cleared outside the main sit-in in the capital, Khartoum.

The negotiations were suspended Wednesday, just hours after the military and the protesters announced they had agreed on the makeup of an interim parliament and a Cabinet for the transitional period, which is to last three years.

The military council had called for the roads outside the sit-in in front of the military’s headquarters in Khartoum to be opened. The protesters appear to have agreed to the demand, as the roads were cleared without incident on Thursday. The protesters also agreed to open the railway that crosses the area of the sit-in for five hours a day.