SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Al-Mahdi fears Sudan’s Hamdok pulls back from IMF-supported economic reforms
Sudan Tribune reports that the leader of the National Umma Party (NUP) Sadiq al-Mahdi, expressed fears that Finance Minister Ibrahim al-Badawi’s dismissal will not prevent the economic reforms he initiated with international financial institutions.
Al-Mahdi said there are two political trends among the revolution’s forces advocating different economic policies: “the dreamers and the [pragmatists].” The latter are said to be those who intend to implement the tough International Monetary Fund (IMF) reforms which al-Badawi pursued. Al-Mahdi said he agreed with al-Badawi “because the dreaming trend will destroy the national economy.”
With leading NUP members claiming that al-Badawi expressed frustrations to Prime Minister Hamdok about his lack of support for attempts to hand over military firms to the Finance Ministry, al-Mahdi “alluded” to this issue.
The article also notes that Sudanese leftists claim that “popular” health minister Akram Eltom was sacked due to his plans to implement free universal healthcare.