Sudan's main opposition coalition has nominated former senior UN official Abdalla Hamdok to be prime minister during the country's three-year transition government
Mr Hamdok, an economist, stepped down last year as deputy executive secretary of the UN's Economic Commission for Africa.
The ruling military council and the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change (FDFC) are expected to sign a final power-sharing agreement on Saturday, after which the transition period is to start.
A sovereign council, consisting of six civilians and five generals, will be formed the next day – a body that will oversee the transition. The prime minister will then be appointed not long after that.
Last year, Mr Hamdok was nominated by then-President Omar al-Bashir to the job of finance minister, but he turned it down, the AFP news agency reports.
Protests broke out in December after Mr Bashir's government imposed emergency austerity measures.
He was then overthrown by the military in April after prolonged street protests outside the military headquarters in the capital, Khartoum.
"We wish Dr Abdalla Hamdok success in one of the hardest periods in the history of our country and people, a period that the revolutionary Sudanese people are looking forward to and observing with hopefulness,” Reuters news agency quotes the Sudanese Professionals Association, the group that spearheaded the protests, as saying.
A Sudanese economist told the agency that Mr Hamdok's good connections at the African Union and UN might help get the country removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism that has hindered its access to loans.
“I think he knows how to get in through the system, much more than anyone else who tried before,” Amin Hassan Sayed Ahmed is quoted as saying.
According to his UN biography, Mr Hamdok has more than 30 years of experience as a senior policy analyst and economist, holding several degrees from top UK institutions and the University of Khartoum.