Sudan’s military council said on Tuesday it wants to keep Islamic Sharia law as the basis of legislation. The council said it agrees with the opposition’s view of the general transitional governing structure However, speaking during a press conference in Khartoum, Shams Al-Deen Al-Kabashi, the spokesman for the military council, said the power to declare a state of emergency should go to the sovereign authority not the cabinet, as the opposition has suggested.