The collapse of the economy in Sudan is the product of a policy dictated by the World Bank
News:
The World Bank said that Sudan's economy shrank by an additional 13.5% in 2024, after shrinking by about a third in the previous year, while extreme poverty is expected to include 71% of the population as the conflict continues. (Sudan Tribune, June 10, 2025)
Comment:
This is the World Bank that calls on countries to follow its capitalist policies that enslave countries, plunder their wealth, and exhaust them with poverty, despite their wealth in resources and wealth. It orders the following of destruction, then comes as a preaching guide, like Satan when he said to man, disbelieve, and when he disbelieved, he said, "I am innocent of you!"
The war alone is not the reason for the collapse of the economy, because it is already collapsing due to following the policies of the World Bank and the capitalist prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund, which are called economic reform, but in reality it is an economic collapse; a systematic starvation of the people of Sudan began from the first prescription, as the largest agricultural project with unified management in the world, the Gezira project, was transformed into a memory after an eye, then the prescriptions followed until Sudan was stripped of the lowest ingredients of a decent life in exchange for satisfying the colonial countries, and international financial institutions, on the part of successive governments that cannot make their own decisions despite Sudan's wealth in apparent and hidden resources.
The inflation that has reached 170% and the collapse of the Sudanese pound are not the result of real economic weakness, but rather of political decisions dictated by the International Monetary Fund, including liberalizing the exchange rate, lifting subsidies on fuel, increasing taxes and fees, and privatizing what remains of the public sector, if anything remains to be privatized. All of this falls under reducing the budget deficit at the expense of the poor, who have no one to take care of their affairs and stand by them after the government abandoned them, so they were afflicted with poverty and starvation in exchange for the dream of increasing revenues to service debts, not to serve the human being who has become a victim of satisfying the capitalist West.
In contrast, Islam established an economic system that achieved sufficiency for everyone who lived under the shadow of its state, and the basis of the system is to take care of people's affairs individually, as Islam absolutely prohibits usury, which is the basis of the global banking system that has made quasi-states today mired in debt and subject to the hegemony of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, implementing its destruction and economic traps, and Islam made oil, gas, and minerals public property, not state or private property. The Prophet ﷺ said: «People are partners in three things: water, pastures, and fire.». Therefore, selling fuel and gas and profiting from them, in addition to liberalizing their prices and privatizing resources, is an attack on the ownership of the nation and a crime against it, and not an economic reform as they claim. As for inflation resulting from rising commodity prices, or from printing currency without cover and the currency being paper with no value, it is the worst of the worst, and it also contradicts the provisions of Islam and is a theft of people's efforts and savings, while Islam made money gold and silver because they have intrinsic value.
This is a drop in the ocean of the economic system in Islam, which will not change the conditions of people except by applying it completely and integrally with the other systems of Islam in the second Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly Guided Caliphate) on the method of Prophethood, whose time has dawned.
Written for the Central Media Office radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Ghada Abdel-Jabbar (Umm Awab) - Wilayah of Sudan
