Sudan protest leaders, army rulers to talk on power transfer

Members of the Sudanese Professionals Association give a press conference in the capital Khartoum on April 15, 2019. Five representatives from the alliance will go Saturday to the military council to discuss with them the transfer of power to civilian rule. PHOTO | EBRAHIM HAMID | AFP

Protest leaders were to hold talks Saturday with Sudan's military rulers who have so far resisted calls to transfer power to a civilian administration, leading figures in the protest movement said.

The talks come on the eve of the protest leaders' planned announcement of a ruling civilian council that they say will replace the military body.