Amid mounting international and local pressures, a prominent civilian group called on the military rulers to release 3 political figures it said were arrested after they met with a United Nations envoy.
State TV did not mention any other details about the dissolution of the boards of directors of government companies.
The United Nations is participating in mediation efforts aimed at the release of figures, including Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who is under house arrest, and a return to a power-sharing agreement, amid mass rallies and anti-army protests.
But the Alliance of Freedom and Change Forces said that three others were arrested on Thursday, two members of the Sudanese Congress Party and a prominent member of a committee working to dismantle the assets of Al-Bashir’s government.
The Alliance of Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change said that any reports of contact between it and the army or an imminent agreement between the army and Hamdok are incorrect and are nothing but desperate attempts to spread frustration among the Sudanese.
A source close to Hamdok said late on Thursday that talks were making progress, but that many protest movements preparing to organize more demonstrations refused to compromise with the army and demanded purely civilian rule.
The United Nations Mission in Sudan condemned the reports of the arrest of Taha Othman Ishaq, Sharif Mohamed Othman and Hamza Farouk near its offices in the capital, Khartoum, after their meeting with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and called for the immediate release of the detainees.
The mission said in a statement, “These arrests impede efforts to restore stability and return to the path of democratic transition in Sudan and cancel any positive impact of the release of 4 detained ministers.”
In Geneva, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Friday called on Sudan’s military leaders to reverse their stance “to allow the country to return to the path of progress towards institutional and legal reforms.”
On Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council approved the appointment of an expert to monitor the situation in Sudan.
The Sudanese army chief, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said that the Sudanese armed forces had intervened to end the turmoil in the country and to spare it the risk of a civil war, and that elections would be held in 2023.
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