Sudanese authorities have seized the assets of ousted leader Omar al-Bashir’s dissolved National Congress Party (NCP) in the capital Khartoum and across the country.
They banned two newspapers and two television stations on Tuesday, saying they had received funding from the government of former president Omar al-Bashir who was ousted last year following protests.
Authority of his “Holy Quran Society” was also transferred to the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
Sudan's Committee for Dismantling Ingaz (Salvation) Regime and Removing Empowerment made the announcement at a news conference in Khartoum.
The ban covers the dailies Al-Sudani and Al-Ray Al-Am and satellite channels Ashrooq and Teeba along with their parent companies.
On Nov. 29, 2019, Sudan's Transitional Government issued a law, which was later approved by the Sovereign Council and the Cabinet, to form the committee to dismantle institutions linked to the former regime, including Bashir’s defunct NCP.
It also called for seizing its assets.
The committee is headed by Sovereign Council member Lieutenant General Yasser al-Ata.
“The committee does not intend to settle scores, but to dismantle the one-party state for the interest of all-Sudanese state,” Mohamed al-Fekki, a Council member said at the news conference.
Bashir was ousted last April after mass protests against his three-decade rule rocked Sudan for months.
The Sovereign Council, a civilian-majority body which was formed after a power-sharing deal signed in August by protest leaders and the generals who ousted Bashir, currently rules Sudan.
In December, Bashir was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for corruption in the first of several cases against him.
