United Nations (UN) Special Representative for Sudan Volker Perthes said that several mediation efforts are underway to solve the current political crisis and restore constitutional order in Sudan where a coup was staged on October 25. Perthes, speaking from Sudan’s capital Khartoum, virtually told reporters in New York City that in the wake of the military takeover, the situation in the Northeast African nation is “stable but very tense”, reports Xinhua news agency. The Sudanese army dissolved the power-sharing transitional government and detained civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his cabinet on October 25.

“Many of the interlocutors we are speaking with in Khartoum, but also internationally and regionally, are expressing a strong desire that we move forward quickly to get out of the crisis and return to the steps of normalcy, to the steps of political transition, as we viewed it before October 25, on the basis of the Constitutional Declaration,” said Perthes. To resolve the crisis, multiple negotiations are underway in Khartoum.