KHARTOUM (Halbeeg News) – Sudanese military has arrested the country’s opposition leader after he met with Ethiopian PM.
Mohammad Esmat who leads the opposition on Friday held discussion with Ethiopian PM, Abiy Ahmed in Khartoum.
No further details were given about his arrest.
Ethiopian PM arrived in Khartoum to try to ease Sudan’s political crisis.
PM Abiy held talks with the main alliance of opposition groups and protesters over ways to resolve the crisis that has been ongoing since the immediate former president was ousted.
The groups that they accepted Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as a mediator in their political deadlock with the Transitional Military Council (TMC) under certain conditions.
Among opposition demands are that the TMC take responsibility for the deadly dispersal of a protest sit-in on last Monday, an international investigation into the incident is launched and political prisoners are released.
Before leaving Sudan, PM Abiy said in a statement that commended the readiness of the sides end the conflict and stabilize the nation.
“The military and the people and the political forces need to act with bravery and responsibility in taking quick steps to a democratic, reconciliatory transitional period in the country,” Abiy said
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