SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Al-Monitor - Coup generals bring back party of Sudan's ousted dictator

19/4/2022: Al-Monitor - Coup generals bring back party of Sudan's ousted dictator, by Marc Espanol

Al-Monitor report that the Sudan’s coup regime is reinstating members of the former ruling Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) in key state positions, with officials appointed by former president Omar al-Bashir appointed as prime and foreign ministers, and given the highest positions at Sudan’s intelligence agency, judiciary and central bank.

The coup regime “have made great efforts” to undo the progress of the Tamkeen committee - an anti-corruption body that aimed to dismantle the kleptocratic structures of the NCP regime - by arresting its civilian leaders and cancelling its decisions, which has seen “hundreds” from the NCP orbit returned to the public administration bodies governing sectors including Islamic finance, health, oil, aviation and media.

While the NCP remains formally outlawed, policy analyst Hamid Khalafallah warned that the military will “find a way” to allow it to participate in elections if “not with the original name”.