Citing a compromise blueprint for the transition which they saw, two protest leaders told AFP it suggests the creation of a 15-member body led by civilians.
Tension between the protest leaders and generals, who seized power after ousting President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to
ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
in April, has been high since a deadly crackdown on a protest camp in Khartoum killed dozens earlier this month.
The crackdown carried out by men in military uniforms came after talks between the two sides failed to reach an agreement on the composition of the new ruling body and who should lead it - a civilian or soldier.
Days after the crackdown, Æthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tried to mediate between the two sides.
His envoy on Saturday Mahmoud Dreir was to discuss the compromise blueprint for a political transition with protest leaders.
One of them, Amjad Farid, said the document "asserts the previous agreements, as well as a proposal to form the sovereign council of eight civilians and seven military."
He said of the eight civilians, seven would be from the umbrella protest movement the Alliance for Freedom and Change.
Another protest leader Madani Abbas Madani also confirmed that compromise calls for a civilian-majority governing body.
In previous talks, protest leaders and the generals had agreed on a three-year transition period and to form a 300-member parliament, with two-third politicians from the protest movement.
Æthiopia stepped up its efforts to resolve the political crisis in Sudan since the deadly June 3 dispersal of a long-running protest camp outside army headquarters in Khartoum.
At least 128 people have been killed in the crackdown, the majority of them on that day, doctors linked to the protest movement say.
The health ministry put the June 3 corpse count at 61 nationwide.
The generals deny they ordered the army HQ protest broken up, insisting they authorized only a limited operation to clear drug pushers from around the camp.
It expressed "regret" over the "excesses" that happened on June 3.