Sudan Government backtracks on privatization of national sugar companies

Khartoum-The government has backtracked on its policy of selling and privatizing the national sugar factories, according to the National Assembly economic panel.

Head of the committee Salem Al-Safai said in statements on Saturday that” there has been a discussion on privatization of sugar factories but it was not agreed upon.

During the past period, the government has thought over privatizing the sugar factories due to what it described as their failure to compete the imported sugar.

In the meantime, parliamentarians have attributed the state’s backtrack on privatization of sugar companies to pressures and campaigns by deputies of parliaments and anti- privatization national figures, and called for changing the what they described as failed administrations of the sugar companies as a solution for the factories problems instead of the privatizations.



Deputy of Parliament for Bara constituency Mahdi Akrat said in statements on Saturday that” now, time has come for the national sugar companies directors to step down after they failed to run them”.

He added “now the factories are working with loss and failed to compete imported sugar”, urging the Presidency of the Republic to relieve all directors of factories for their failure instead of the privatization.

On other hand, Al-Safai said that the general auditor report will be dealt with differently this time, saying that they do not want any repeated issue in the 2013 report.