Abdalla Hamdok government
Abdalla Hamdok
Date formed	21 November 2019
Date dissolved	2 January 2022
People and organisations
Head of state	Transitional Sovereignty Council
Prime Minister	Abdalla Hamdok
Status in legislature	Transitional
History
Predecessor	Transitional Military Council
Successor	Osman Hussein government

TheAbdalla Hamdok government was thecabinet of theRepublic of the Sudan formed in the aftermath of the11 April 2019 Sudanese coup d'état.^[1]

Chapter 5 of the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration defined the procedures which led to the nomination ofAbdalla Hamdok as prime minister,^[2] and up to 20 ministers in the transitional government, during the 39-monthdemocratic transition.^[3][4] TheSudanese Women's Union protested against this.^[5] Under Article 19 of the Draft Constitutional Declaration, the ministers of the Transitional Cabinet are ineligible to run in theelection scheduled to follow the transition period.^[4][3]

In October 2021, the Hamdok government was overthrown in the2021 Sudanese coup d'état.^[6][7][8] The Hamdok government was reinstated on 21 November 2021 and dissolved on 2 January 2022 when Abdalla Hamdok resigned as prime minister of Sudan. Acivil war broke out in Sudan in April 2023.

The2018–19 Sudanese protests led to the11 April 2019 Sudanese coup d'état which overthrew PresidentOmar al-Bashir and dissolved his Cabinet. The defense minister who led the coup was removed on 14 April 2019.^[9]

The sustained civil disobedience by Sudanese citizens that preceded the April coup d'état continued, in opposition to theTransitional Military Council (TMC). Negotiations between the TMC and theForces 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,^[10] with the sovereignty council holding the right to veto nominations,^[11] 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.^[12] 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".^[3][4]

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.^[3]

The transitional period ministers are forbidden under Article 19 of the Draft Constitutional Declaration from running in the planned2022 Sudanese general election.^[3]

Abdalla Hamdok, a Sudanese public administrator who served in numerous international administrative positions during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries,^[13] was nominated by the FFC as prime minister^[2] and formally sworn in on 21 August 2019.

On 18 August 2019, theSudanese 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.^[5] Women in senior positions in the transitional period institutions includeAisha Musa el-Said andRaja Nicola in theSovereignty 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".^[5]

Women ministers in the Hamdok Cabinet includeAsma Mohamed Abdalla as foreign minister,^[14]Lena el-Sheikh Mahjoub as minister of social development and labour,^[15][16]Wala'a Essam al-Boushi as minister for youth and sports,Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun as minister of higher education.^[17]

Theal-Bashir annual national budgets mostly funded Sudanese security and other armed forces (70 percent in 2016), with the 2018 budget allocating 3 percent toeducation.^[18] In November 2019, a plan to raise the fraction of the budget allocated to education to 20 percent was announced.^[19]

In September 2019, 20 ministries were planned.^[20]

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