Sudan: ‘Ruling Party Manages Sudan Through Private Companies’: Economist

Oct 26, 2014 | Radio Dabanga
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A prominent Sudanese economist has reported that the Sudanese government spent at least $65 billion of oil revenues on security measures between 2000 and July 2011, when South Sudan seceded from Sudan. He also outlined how the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) controls all financial and economic fields in Sudan through about 500 companies it owns.

In a paper presented at a consultative meeting recently convened in Nairobi, Kenya, on institutional reform in Sudan, the Sudanese economist Dr Siddig Ombadda stated that more than $65 billion has been spent on the military and security since Sudan began exporting crude oil at the end of 1999, until the secession of South Sudan in July 2011.