SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Al-Midan – The Hidden Market

3/2/2021: Al-Midan – The Hidden Market, by Madiha Abdallah

 Arguing that over 80% of Sudan’s money is circulating outside of authorised bodies, Madiha Abdallah, the editor of the Communist Party’s al-Midan newspaper, calls for Prime Minister Hamdok to adopt a more confrontational approach to the “secret causes of the economic crisis”.

Practical steps suggested by Abdallah include: exposing all the economic institutions and interest networks associated with the mechanisms of the hidden market, alongside the sidelining by some government bodies of government revenue, as well as countering tax evasions, smuggling and foreign exchange brokers.

Abdallah concludes that “confrontation should include the naming of those interest groups, most of which had been built during the rule of darkness of the defunct regime.”