SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: al-Rakoba – What are the limits of the recommendations of Hamdok’s initiative?
Salah Shu’aib calls for Prime Minister Hamdok to “save time and energy” by allowing the transitional partners’ council, the alternative to the proposed legislative council, to handle Hamdok’s democratic transition mechanism and Road Forward initiative.
With elections due in two years, Shu’aib suggests that Hamdok should prioritise improving his executive performance, particularly fixing economic, social, information, diplomatic and cultural shortcomings, which is “the meaning of the revolutionary authority he was given”, instead of “wasting time” with his “very generalised” initiative mechanism which culminates in a proliferation of committees that have unclear objectives, and do not allow him to synchronise his ministerial performance.
Shu’aib also notes that the membership of Hamdok’s Road Forward initiative is 95 percent male, before questioning whether it will solve key issues pertaining to Islamists, the former regime, the re-integration of the Sudanese Communist Party and the Professionals Association into the government, alongside economic and security concerns.