Prime Minister Launches National Committee for Economic Management
Khartoum, August 4, 2026 (SUNA) – Prime Minister Professor Kamil Idris launched the National Committee for Economic Management today in Khartoum. The launch was attended by ministers from the economic sector, the Prime Minister’s Special Representative Dr. Al-Hussein Al-Khalifa Al-Siddiq Al-Hafyan, the Prime Minister’s Advisor Nizar Abdullah Mohammed, the Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan, the Secretary-General of the Tax Authority, the Directors of Customs, Standards and Metrology, the Central Auditing Organization, the Capital Markets Authority, and representatives from several other relevant bodies.
The Prime Minister emphasized the importance of the committee’s work in managing the economy under the current exceptional circumstances facing the country.
The meeting approved the committee’s tasks, responsibilities, and methodology for its work in the coming period.
The committee aims to maintain macroeconomic stability, including curbing inflation and stabilizing the exchange rate, accelerating sustainable economic growth and increasing national productivity, strengthening productive sectors and boosting domestic production, increasing exports and foreign currency reserves, enhancing investor confidence and the competitiveness of the private sector, supporting food security, and achieving balanced and sustainable development.
It is worth noting that the National Committee for Economic Management is an executive body responsible for decision-making and implementation. Its scope of work encompasses fiscal and monetary policies, production, trade, the external sector, investment, employment, food security, energy, digital transformation, and related structural reforms.
The meeting affirmed the importance of unifying and coordinating efforts to manage the national economy and holding regular, periodic meetings of the committee.
Dr. Jarham Abdel Qader, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, Information, and Tourism, explained in a press statement that the committee addresses economic challenges, and this does not conflict with the work of the economic sector within the mechanisms of the Council of Ministers.