The strikers challenged his threats .. Hamidati: Many are talking with countries that want to break up Sudan

The vice president of Sudan's military junta says many are in contact with countries that want to break up the country in his first response to a general strike by officials and workers on Tuesday in response to an invitation from the forces of freedom and change.

Mohamed Hamdan accused "my two female parties of exploiting the Sudanese revolution to improve their image," but this will not prevent them from being held accountable.

"We will have to agree tonight with them if they do," he said, adding that the armed forces were part of the revolution and would not have stayed with President Omar al-Bashir in power.

"We have confirmed information that many of us are communicating with outsiders," he said.

But Fawzad, head of the Unionist Socialist Party and a member of the Forces for Freedom and Change, responded to the accusations by saying that the military council had suspicious relations with countries trying to interfere in Sudanese affairs.

"We in the forces of freedom and change believe in good neighborliness and we want balanced and independent relations, and we want to move away from the regional and international axes, and this is our project for which we have grown," Fawaz told Al Jazeera.

He called on the military junta to stay away from the axis policy that "destroyed the Sudan for 30 years."

In the same context, the forces of freedom and change announced their satisfaction with the interaction of staff and workers with the general strike on its first day.

Earlier, Al-Jazeera Net reported in Khartoum that the strike affected the banking sector and all the ports of Sudan, and caused the paralysis of navigation at Khartoum International Airport.

Pictures shown by agencies and channels showed Sudanese employees in front of their offices waving slogans that confirmed their entry into the strike and ridiculing the vice-president of the military junta, who had previously threatened to beat the job.

It is noteworthy that the Sudanese army ousted President Omar al-Bashir on April 11 on the impact of sit-ins and protests against the regime.

The military formed a military council to manage a transition, but the protesters continued to sit in front of the headquarters of the staff and insisted on handing over power to civilians.

After the stalled negotiations between the two sides called on the forces of freedom and change to strike, and threatened civil disobedience to get the military to abandon the government.