A/HRC/42/63 supporting a human rights-based approach to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes in Darfur. The Human Rights Section of UNAMID and the national commission for human rights are currently preparing a substantive joint session. VII. Conclusion and recommendations 93. The Independent Expert takes note of the challenges facing the Sudan, the country’s authorities and other stakeholders in ensuring and sustaining a peaceful transfer of power to a civilian-led transitional authority. He encourages both the Transitional Military Council and the Forces for Freedom and Change, as well as other political stakeholders and armed opposition movements in the Sudan, to engage constructively with the mediation efforts and the joint proposal of the Ethiopian mediator and the special envoy from the African Union and to resume talks to ensure the swift transfer of power to a civilian-led transitional authority. 94. The Independent Expert commends the positive engagement of Sudanese authorities with OHCHR to work towards the establishment of a country office with a full mandate, also noting the interruption of this engagement following the removal of President al-Bashir. 95. The Independent Expert underlines that the countrywide developments in the Sudan have important security and human rights ramifications for Darfur. He encourages the African Union and the United Nations to broaden the scope of the political strategy accompanying the exit of UNAMID beyond the political challenges and grievances in Darfur, transforming it to serve as a country strategy. Such a country strategy should also focus on key protection challenges and efforts to support a civilian-led transition that will strengthen the rule of law in Darfur. As long as UNAMID is deployed, there is a need to maintain a strong mandate on human rights monitoring and continuous risk assessment under the human rights due diligence policy of the United Nations. 96. The Independent Expert takes note of the national fact-finding committees established by the Government of President al-Bashir in January and by the Transitional Military Council in June to address the human rights violations that were reported as resulting from the responses by security forces to the protests, as well as the investigation carried out by the office of the Attorney General. He expresses concern, however, about the extent of the independence and the impartiality of those committees, taking into consideration that their findings were not disclosed to the public as of the preparation of the present report in July. 97. On the basis of his appraisal and assessment of the situation, the Independent Expert reiterates all the recommendations previously made and which have not been implemented. In particular, he makes the recommendations below. 1. Sudanese authorities 98. The Independent Expert calls upon the authorities in the Sudan to: (a) Take concrete measures to reform the security apparatuses in accordance with international human rights standards, with priority given to withdrawing the law enforcement powers of the National Intelligence and Security Services, and conduct a screening exercise for the leadership of State security entities to ensure the exclusion of individuals implicated in human rights violations; (b) Make public the findings of national investigative committees into allegations of human rights violations committed in the course of security force responses to the protests since December 2018, and cooperate fully with international accountability mechanisms that may be established by the African Union or the United Nations; 17