Sudanese Transparency
Sudan, as predicted by the organization in its report (National Integrity System for 2022), is still unable to combat corruption!!
The year 2022 was marked by the following:
– A deterioration in security and public peace, ensuing from the government’s failure to control the swelling security violations and tribal clashes.
– Stifling the screws on civil society organizations, for example (suspending the registration of the Sudan Society for Consumer Protection) without any legal grounds!!
– Poor services, price chaos, and imposing taxes without setting standards for their governance.
Poor performance of the executive body and the indifference of some of the acting ministers to the decisions by the Council of Ministers!!
– Non-compliance with the open budget standards in the 2023 budget, which lacked transparency in publication and taking onboard public opinion, to confirm the importance of official and societal oversight that identifies deviations and follows up and monitors the budget’s progress regarding revenues and expenditures.
– Indifference to reducing the violation of national sovereignty and silence on the transgressions by some UN envoys and ambassadors to diplomatic norms.
– Adopting division and fragmentation of the country’s economic resources instead of integration for the public interest!!
– Signing investment agreements negatively affecting the economy without adopting the principles of mutual interest and preserving the rights of future generations, in addition to not disclosing the terms of those agreements and their return to the country.
-Improper relationship between the large private sector (business sector) and some influential people in power.
– continued depletion of the country’s foreign exchange resources through some telecommunications companies, with poor performance and oversight of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority.
– The failure of the political components to agree according to public interest, and the government’s failure to deliver its commitment to form a government of technocrats to accomplish the tasks of the transitional period leading to free, fair and transparent elections in which the citizen chooses who governs them and how they are governed.
The basic structures of transparency – integrity and combating corruption – remained stagnant, as the case with previous years, including:
– Work on completing the requirements (matrix) of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (Ministry of Justice) has been stalled
Absence of an anti-corruption strategy.
– Failure to seriously address attempts to politicize the judiciary system, the absence of the Judicial Council and the Prosecution Council, and the suspension of the Constitutional Court.
– The absence of a law to protect corruption whistleblowers, the failure to activate the laws of the right to information, consumer protection and clearance, and the freezing of the election law instead of improving it by experts.
– Poor performance of the watch agencies represented by the National Audit Bureau, the Board of Grievances, the Consumer Protection Agency, and the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency.
Procrastination in the formation of the Anti-Corruption Commission, despite the approval of its law in the year 2020
The statistics of the results of the Anti-Corruption Index issued by Transparency International for 2003 to 2022 confirm the country’s failure to promote transparency and combat corruption, according to the following indicators:
– The average score obtained by Sudan in the Corruption Perceptions Index from 2003 to 2020 is equal to 16 points, with a minimum of 11 points in 2013, and a maximum of 23 in 2003, while the global average is equal to 43 points.
– The country has not been able to improve its position in the anti-corruption index, as it has not been able to exceed the average score obtained in 2003, that is, about twenty years ago (23 points).
– Sudan obtained 20 points in 2021, and 22 in 2022, while the global average is equal to 43 degrees, and it ranked 162 out of 180 countries, as shown by the results of the Corruption Perceptions Index report issued by Transparency International on 31 January 2023, less than two weeks ago, while the global average remained the same as before equal to 43 scores.