SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Project Syndicate - An Appeal for Sudan’s Future

17/11/19: Project Syndicate - An Appeal for Sudan’s Future, by Ibrahim Elbadawi and Jeffrey D. Sachs

 Sudanese finance minister Ibrahim Elbadawi, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, a Sustainable Development Goals Advocate for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, call for “vital and timely international assistance to Sudan” to guarantee the success of the transitional government’s reforms.

 Elbadawi and Sachs call for the US to lift its designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, thereby removing remove regulatory barriers to commerce, finance, and the movement of people.

 To enact the Sudan Economic Revival Plan that is based on UN Sustainable Development Goals, the authors call for immediate debt relief, via Sudan’s inclusion in the IMF-World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) programme.

 Elbadawi and Sachs argue that such support would enable Sudan to evolve towards peace and democracy, warning that Sudanese instability and violence would engulf many other countries in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.