The Sudanese Council of Ministers will discuss, during closed meetings that will last for three days, the programs of the transitional government during the last period, and evaluate government performance and the progress of plans that have been developed within the government’s five priorities.
Khartoum: AlTaghyeer
The Sudanese Council of Ministers will hold closed meetings lasting a period of three days, starting Thursday going through Saturday.
All ministers and undersecretaries will participate in the meetings to discuss the transitional government’s programs during the last period.
The meetings will evaluate government performance and follow-up on the progress of programs, plans, and projects that were developed with regard to the five priorities discussed in last February’s meetings.
According to an official statement released Thursday, the meeting will also discuss government communication and how to develop and strengthen it, pinning it a governmental requirement for the coming period.
Undersecretaries of the ministries will participate in the meetings of the transitional cabinet for the first time, based on the recommendations of the previous meeting.
It is expected that ministers and undersecretaries will present plans for the next stage and discuss them in the meetings, as well as to the performance reports and the executive plan, both having been approved.
In addition, the levels of work that went into them in the previous period, both urgent/deferred projects and programs, and the progress of a plan devised for the second half of this year are to be presented.
It is noteworthy that the five priorities set by the Council of Ministers at the beginning of this year included the economic and social axis, the axes of peace and security, foreign relations, democratic transition and the threats surrounding it, and the completion of transitional authority structures.
Dreams Deferred
The closed-door government meetings come at a time when the country is witnessing many complications at various levels.
For the first time, revolutionary parties and forces have announced their intention to participate in processions–coinciding with the 30th of June–to overthrow the transitional government.
The Sudanese public had brought back the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change to the political scene with the processions held on June 30, 2019.
The processions came less than a month after the former military council took control of the reins of power, after the sit-in massacre.
Many people, politicians, and street organizations, are protesting against a package of economic reforms approved by the government, including lifting subsidies for goods.
Components within Freedom and Change accuse the executive authority of acting unilaterally without referring to the political incubator.
