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TEHRAN, Apr 21 - Sudanese protest leaders are expected to unveil on Sunday a civilian council that they want to take power from the army rulers, who have resisted calls to step down despite mass demonstrations.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Thousands of protesters gathered outside the army headquarters in central Khartoum ahead of the announcement, an AFP correspondent reported, a day after the two sides pledged to hold more talks.
On Friday the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which was at the forefront of the protest campaign that toppled longtime president Omar al-Bashir this month, said it would announce the civilian council at 1700 GMT.
It has invited foreign diplomats and journalists to attend the event at the rally site.
"We are waiting for the announcement today," Romaysaa Omar, one of the protesters, told AFP.
"All Sudanese people are in favor of the council to be announced by the SPA."
Whistling and waving Sudanese flags, dozens of demonstrators were sitting on a bridge at the site, banging stones against metal in rhythmical beats.
"We will stay at the site until all our demands are met," said Al-Baraa Yousef, another demonstrator.
On Saturday protest leaders and the military rulers held talks about a power handover and agreed to continue discussions.
"We clarified our main demand, which is the transfer of power to civilian authorities," Siddiq Yousef, a senior member of the Alliance for Freedom and Change, the umbrella group leading the protest movement, told state television after Saturday's talks ended.
"We agreed to continue negotiations to reach a solution that satisfies both the sides, so that the transfer of power will happen in a peaceful way."
Source: Reuters
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