Ahmed Fadl-Khartoum
Hafir Hafir The signs of protests against the government of the Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok are the same fate as the protests that overthrew the ousted president, Omar al-Bashir. Bread, fuel and transportation are still problems for the Sudanese.
On Monday, it was difficult for the government. There are protests in central Khartoum because of the transport crisis, which is still prevalent, as well as demonstrations by students in Port Sudan (about 675 km northeast of the capital) because of the doubling of the transportation tariff.
In Al-Suki town, Sennar state, about 291 km southeast of Khartoum, protesters closed the local buildings and the Tax Office and burned bakeries and cut the main road, in protest against the high prices and the lack of bread and fuel.
Social media platforms have been fueled by comments from activists - some of whom are pro-revolutionary - warning against the consequences of not tackling high-cost crises and the collapse of the pound.
| Of the protests that took place in the city of Suki Monday (Al Jazeera Net) |
Harmful rumor
And the exchange rate exceeded the one hundred Sudanese pounds, following press reports quoted by a prominent leader in the Forces for Freedom and Change, the ruling coalition, in which he revealed an agreement with the government to increase the customs dollar to 55 pounds instead of 18 pounds.
Prices had flared following a decision by the Bashir government in the 2018 budget to double the customs dollar to 18 pounds from six pounds.
The Vice-President of the Economic Committee in the Forces for Freedom and Change, Adel Khalaf Allah Al-Jazeera, told the Net that what was reported by one of the Khartoum newspapers on his tongue was dishonorable and led to a state of panic, confusion and confusion in the market movement.
Port Sudan, Red Sea State |
Khalaf Allah said, "Spreading the statement in this way provided a service to speculators in foreign exchange and the aggravation schemes run by the counter-revolutionary forces after the failure of their coup attempt."
Later on Tuesday, the dollar exchange rate fell to about 89 pounds, after the forces of freedom and change denied increasing the customs dollar.
Criticism of the partisans
The official of the Economic Committee of the ruling coalition said that the forces of freedom and change refused to include in the 2020 budget the IMF's policy package of liberalizing the price of fuel and reducing the value of the pound and customs dollar gradually and according to a timeline.
And he indicates that there is an economic conference next March that will set emergency and alternative scenarios to correct the course of the economy.
Sayed al-Tayeb, a pro-revolutionary activist and her government, has presented a criticism package as he warns against a convoy of supporters of the former regime under the slogan "People's Pensions" next Saturday.
And Al-Tayyeb wrote on his Facebook account that the dollar exchange rate will exceed 100 pounds next Saturday, and that the fuel, bread and transportation crises will worsen.
"Does our government run its job? Al-Keezan (supporters of Al-Bashir Party) are workers who have a known job that resembles them. They have nothing to offer the country other than harm people," the activist asks.
He adds, "Did the Minister of Finance sit with economic security and take measures against the cobs that are publicly working to sabotage the market? Did the Minister of Commerce establish an emergency room to manage the crisis and limit its impact? ..."
Rescue call
The legal immigrant, Saif al-Dawla, praised God for calling to save the revolution "before its torch was extinguished," explaining that it was imperative that, as it really happened, the moment came when the word "Thank you Hamdouk" would spread.
Thank God, he wrote on his Facebook page that the street now wakes up that success in managing the state apparatus is not achieved by the cheers of the fans as it happens in the world of the ball .. it must come the moment when the street wakes up that patience over the hardness of life and overcoming the living, not met with what He deserves recognition and distinction in the performance of the leadership of the revolution's apparatus. "
He warned that this situation would lead to "an imminent catastrophe that ends with the abortion of the revolution."
As for the former leader of the Sudanese Al-Hilal Club and the national team, Haitham Mustafa, he issued a Facebook case to him with a hadith attributed to Sheikh Mohamed Metwally Al-Shaarawi, “The true revolutionary erupts to destroy corruption and then calm down to build glories.”
Mustafa, who was one of the icons of the revolution, added, "Frankly, we have not found glory that is being built now, to give him a hand or give him the happiness of hearts even. We are in a state of painful contraction, sterile inertia and a painful reality."
Poor imagination
The activist on communication platforms, Ali Othman, alerted to what he called "revolutionary poverty of imagination." He said that the communication sites were filled with hundreds of articles dealing with solutions or critically critical economic and political situations, but what is observed today is the limited supply of this commodity.
It indicates that the basic principle is that revolutions always carry big dreams that are derived from visions that result from the accumulated suffering and constraints, but the Sudanese political mind's inability to present a recipe for post-revolution crises raises signs of questioning and ridicule.
The disputed National Congress Party leader Ibrahim Ghandour, in this contest, interfered in his official Facebook account with the plan of the head of the State of Law and Development Party, Muhammad Ali al-Jazuli, regarding the economic crisis.
According to al-Jazouli, the government of freedom and change wants to reduce government fuel subsidies to about two-thirds, dissolve the National Congress Party and its fronts, and has frozen the activities of 52 organizations, yet they want to increase government support.
It seems that these criticisms did her work with the Hamdok government and the political forces supporting it. The forces of freedom and change have worked over the past hours to persuade Hamdok to go out to the public opinion and explain the economic problems instead of the Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Badawi, which is what actually happened by announcing a TV interview to the Prime Minister.