Sudan's second new military leader vows to release political prisoners and end a night curfew in a bid to placate demonstrators demanding civilian rule
"I announce the restructuring of state institutions according to the law and pledge to fight corruption and uproot the regime and its symbols." General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said.
He also ordered the release of all prisoners jailed by special emergency courts and the immediate lifting of a night-time curfew imposed by the council earlier this week. But in a statement Saturday evening, Burhan said the deputy chief of the NISS was a member of the newly formed 10-member council which also includes the police chief and military figures.
Ibn Ouf had served as Bashir's defence minister right up to the president's downfall, ending three decades of iron-fisted rule. "We consider taking of power by the military council as violating the constitution's legitimacy," the NCP said in a statement.
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