SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Multiple sources – Reactions to Hamdok as Sudan PM

21/8/19: Multiple sources – Reactions to Hamdok as Sudan PM

• Financial Times, by Tom Wilson

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz

• AFP

International and Sudanese political actors welcomed Abdalla Hamdok’s appointment as Sudan’s new prime minister.

 The US, UK, Norway troika said Hamdok’s appointment “presents an opportunity to rebuild a stable economy and create a government that respects human rights and personal freedoms.”

 Amjed Farid, a Sudan Professionals Association spokesman, called Hamdok a “Sudanese scholar and a technocrat with a track record of achievement.”

 Farid told the Financial Times that Hamdok faces “difficult questions” and a “dark legacy of the Bashir regime,” but said Hamdok “has enough popularity and peoples’ support to implement the very difficult emergency plans needed to rescue Sudan in this transitional period.”

 Another SPA spokesman, Al-Rashed Saeed, told Reuters “with the start of the transition period, we have entered the most complex phase, the phase of building and reform.”

 Khartoum University student Sumaila Ibrahim told AFP that “has the skills we need the most at the moment."