The Cabinet of Sudan usually refers to the chief executive body of the Republic of the Sudan. The Cabinet was dissolved following the 11 April 2019 Sudanese coup d'état.[1] Chapter 5 of the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration defines the procedures which led to the nomination of Abdalla Hamdok as Prime Minister, and up to 20 Ministers in the Cabinet, during late August 2019, for the 39-month democratic transition. The Sudanese Women's Union protested against this. Under Article 19 of the Draft Constitutional Declaration, the ministers of the Transitional Cabinet are ineligible to run in the election scheduled to follow the transition period.
The 2018–19 Sudanese protests led to the 11 April 2019 Sudanese coup d'état which overthrew President Omar al-Bashir and dissolved his Cabinet. The Defense Minister who led the coup was removed on 14 April 2019.[2]
The sustained civil disobedience by Sudanese citizens that preceded the April coup d'état continued, in opposition to the Transitional Military Council (TMC). Negotiations between the TMC and the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance (FFC) led to the July Political Agreement and the August Draft Constitutional Declaration, which gave the FFC the choice of the ministers of the transitional government, with the sovereignty council holding the right to veto nominations, apart from the defence and interior ministers, who are to be selected by military members of the Sovereignty Council and appointed by the prime minister. Chapter 5 (Article 14) of the Draft Constitutional Declaration defines the Transitional Cabinet in similar terms, but gives the Prime Minister the right to choose the other members of the cabinet from a list provided to him or her by the FFC. The cabinet members are "confirmed by the Sovereignty Council".
Article 16.(a) of the Draft Constitutional Declaration requires the Prime Minister and members of Cabinet to be "Sudanese by birth", at least 25 years old, a clean police record for "crimes of honour".
Article 16.(b) excludes dual nationals from being a Minister of Defence, Interior, Foreign Affairs or Justice unless an exemption is agreed by the Sovereignty Council and the FFC for the position of Prime Minister, or by the Sovereignty Council and the Prime Minister for ministerial positions.
The transitional period ministers are forbidden under Article 19 of the Draft Constitutional Declaration from running in the planned 2022 Sudanese general election.
Abdalla Hamdok, a Sudanese public administrator who served in numerous international administrative positions during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, was nominated by the FFC as Prime Minister and formally sworn in on 21 August 2019.
On 18 August 2019, the Sudanese Women's Union stated that women had not been consulted in the preparation of a list of candidates for ministerial posts for the 2019–2022 Transitional Cabinet, and that few women were among the candidates. Women in senior positions in the transitional period institutions include Aisha Musa el-Said and Raja Nicola in the Sovereignty Council of Sudan.
The Sudanese Women's Union argued that women had played as significant a role as men in the political changes of 2019 and that Sudanese women "claim an equal share of 50-50 with men at all levels, measured by qualifications and capabilities".
Women Ministers in the Hamdok Cabinet include Asma Mohamed Abdalla as Foreign Minister, Lena el-Sheikh Mahjoub as Minister of Social Development and Labour, Wala'a Essam al-Boushi as Minister for Youth and Sports, Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun as Minister of Higher Education.
The al-Bashir annual national budgets mostly funded Sudanese security and other armed forces (70 percent in 2016), with the 2018 budget allocating 3 percent to education. In November 2019, a plan to raise the fraction of the budget allocated to education to 20 percent was announced.
In September 2019, 20 ministries were planned.
| Office | Incumbent (with alternative transliterations[3]) | Website | Since | Left Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Minister | Abdalla Hamdok | 21 August 2019 | 02 January 2022 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Asma Mohamed Abdalla | 8 September 2019 | 9 July 2020 | |
| Omer Ismail[4] | 9 July 2020 | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Mariam al-Mahdi[5] | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Finance and Economy | Ibrahim Elbadawi (also: Ibrahim Ahmed El Badawi) | 8 September 2019 | 9 July 2020 | |
| Hiba Mohammed Ali | 9 July 2020 | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Gibril Ibrahim | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Health | Akram Ali Altom (also: el-Toam, Eltom) | 8 September 2019 | 9 July 2020 | |
| Sara Abdelazeem | 9 July 2020 | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Omar El Najeeb | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Education | Mohammed el-Amin el-Tom (also: el-Toam, Altom)) | 8 September 2019 | ||
| Minister of Industry and Trade | Madani Abbas Madani | 8 September 2019 | 9 February 2021 | |
| Ibrahim El Sheikh | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Energy and Oil | Adel Ibrahim (also: Adil) | 8 September 2019 | 9 July 2020 | |
| Khairy Abdel Rahman | 9 July 2020 | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Jaden Ali | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources | Yasser Abbas Mohamed Ali | 8 September 2019 | ||
| Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources | Issa Osman Sharif (also: Eissa) | 8 September 2019 | 9 July 2020 | |
| Abdelgadir Turkawi | 9 July 2020 | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Taher Harbi | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Livestock and Fisheries | Alam al-Din Abdallah Abashar (also: Alam-Aldin, Abasher) | 15 October 2019 | 9 July 2020 | |
| Adil Idris | 9 July 2020 | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Hafez Nabi | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Infrastructure and Transport | Hashim Tahir Sheikh Taha (also: Hashem) | 15 October 2019 | 9 July 2020 | |
| Hashim Ibn Auf | 9 July 2020 | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Mirghani Mousa | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Labour and Administrative Reform | Lena el-Sheikh Mahjoub | 8 September 2019 | 9 February 2021 | |
| Taysir El Nourani | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Justice | Nasreldin Abdelbari (also: Nasr-Eddin Abdul-Bari, Nasr al-Din Abdel Bari) | 9 September 2019 | ||
| Minister of Youth and Sports | Wala'a Essam al-Boushi | 8 September 2019 | 9 February 2021 | |
| Yousef El Dai | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Cabinet Affairs | Omar Munis (also: Omer Manies) | 8 September 2019 | 9 February 2021 | |
| Khaled Omar | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Federal Government | Youssef Adam Aldai (or Yousef, el-Dhai) | 8 September 2019 | 9 February 2021 | |
| Butheina Dinar | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Culture and Information | Faisal Mohamed Saleh | 8 September 2019 | 9 February 2021 | |
| Hamza Baloul | 9 February 2021 | |||
| Minister of Higher Education | Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun | 8 September 2019 | ||
| Minister of Religious Affairs | Nasr al-Din Mufreh (also: Nasr-Eddin Mofarah) | 8 September 2019 | ||
| Minister of Defence | Jamal Aldin Omar (also: Omer) | 8 September 2019 | 25 March 2020[6] | |
| Yassin Ibrahim Yassin | 2 June 2020[7] | |||
| Minister of Interior | Idriss al-Traifi (also: el-Teraifi Idris) | 8 September 2019 | 9 February 2021 | |
| Ezzeldin El Sheikh | 9 February 2021 | |||
| General Intelligence Service | Jamal Abdelmajeed | https://twitter.com/GisGovSd | 16 January 2020 | |
| Minister of Communications and Digital Transformation | Hashem Hasabelrasoul | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Minister of Investment and International Cooperation | Mohamed Ibrahim | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Minister of Mining | Mohamed Abunumou | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Minister of Social Development | Mutasim Ahmed Saleh | 9 February 2021 | ||
| Minister of Trade | Ali Jido | 9 February 2021 | ||