During a three-day visit to Sudan, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa has met Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who has been under house arrest since last month's coup.

Molly Phee gave few details of what they talked about except to say in a tweet that they discussed "ways forward to restore Sudan's democratic transition".

The US has condemned the 25 October coup against the joint military-civilian government that had been in place since 2019.

It was supposed to be paving the way for elections following the overthrow of long-serving president Omar al-Bashir.

Ms Phee also met the coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the Reuters news agency reports.

He said that the process of releasing those held since the takeover had begun, it quotes the state news agency Suna as saying.

Sudanese protests against the coup have continued.

On Tuesday, journalists, some of whose colleagues have been detained, held their own demonstration against the military government.