Detained Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was released the same day as army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan said the state of emergency could be lifted soon. Hamdok’s office announced on Tuesday that Hamdok has returned home with his wife under tight security, while some other ministers and civilian leaders remained detained.

They were arrested on Monday, as Al-Burhan, general commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, declared a state of emergency across the country, dissolved the transitional Sovereign Council and the government, and relieved the state governors, saying that the differences among the partners of the transitional period in Sudan had pushed the armed forces to intervene to prevent the country from sliding into chaos, news agency Xinhua reported.