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Bloomberg Agency has prepared a report on the 50 most influential figures around the world, of which Prime Minister Dr. Abdullah Hamdouk among them , who has introduced a set of political, economic and social reforms that have been considered the deepest in the entire Islamic world for decades.
According to the report: “The former UN economist implemented six new major policies this summer, perhaps the boldest changes in the Islamic world in a century.”
The report pointed to the nature of the current Sudanese government, which consists of a coalition of civilian and military leaders that came after a popular revolution that toppled dictator Omer al-Bashir, and this government is a transitional body to prepare for elections to be held in 2022.
Even with the elections expected in 2022, the agency’s report asserted that PM Hamdouk has embarked on a bold sociopolitical reform program – perhaps surprising because he was a relatively unknown technocrat, before becoming prime minister, having previously served in senior positions in the United Nations.
The report has pointed out to the reforms introduced by Hamdouk in July included amendments and reforms in laws that abolished laws criminalizing apostasy and the punishment of flogging, criminalized female genital cutting, and abolished the law that requires women to obtain permission from a male family member to travel with their children and other laws and regulations that may interferes with the restriction of public and personal freedoms.
The report indicated that what is most noticeable is that Hamdouk’s government has pledged to separate religion from the state, ending three decades of religious rule.
The report indicated: “Nevertheless, Sudan continues to suffer from extreme poverty, as the Coronavirus pandemic has increased problems for a moribund economy.” However, donors and investors are now “less cautious” about investing and dealing with Sudan after the administration of US President Donald Trump removed Sudan from the US State Department’s list of countries and regimes sponsoring terrorism, something the government inherited from Al- Bashir’s era.
