New Independence Party's Vision for Addressing Economic Collapse<\/p>\n
A Preliminary Vision for the Period of War, Recovery and Economic Reconstruction<\/p>\n
New Independence Party<\/p>\n
September 2026<\/p>\n
This document presents the New Independence Party's preliminary vision for addressing Sudan's collapsed economic situation. It does not claim to be a complete technical economic programme or a substitute for specialised studies. Rather, it sets out the broad political direction and the priorities which the Party believes the State should pursue during the periods of war, recovery and reconstruction.<\/p>\n
The vision rests on the understanding that the economy cannot be rescued by a single measure. Currency, gold, foreign exchange, production, investment, foreign trade, agriculture, livestock, industry and infrastructure are interconnected. The currency cannot be stabilised while the country continues to export its resources in raw form, import most of its needs, waste hides, milk and crops, and allow foreign currency to flow out without regard to national priorities.<\/p>\n
The document also emphasises that the exceptional measures proposed are linked to the period of war and recovery and are subject to law and review. The objective is not to establish a closed economy hostile to investment, but temporarily to protect scarce resources, direct them towards production, and open the country to major investment that adds value and brings in foreign currency.<\/p>\n
The war has caused widespread destruction of production, factories, markets, banks and transport routes, and has increased displacement, unemployment and poverty while expanding smuggling and the informal economy. Yet the crisis did not begin with the war alone. It was preceded by years of poor public financial management, uncontrolled money printing, deficit-financed expenditure, multiple exchange rates, declining confidence in banks, and the export of gold, crops and livestock with the least possible added value.<\/p>\n
The economy relied on selling raw materials and importing manufactured goods instead of building industries that turn the country's resources into valuable products. At the same time, certain sectors and activities depleted foreign exchange without bringing in corresponding capital, technology or genuine exports. The absence of stable planning, corruption and weak institutions squandered opportunities offered by the country's agriculture, gold, livestock, gum arabic and other resources.<\/p>\n
The Party therefore believes that the response must combine the restoration of State sovereignty over currency and gold, temporary priorities for foreign exchange and imports, a shift from raw-material exports to manufacturing, the direction of domestic and foreign investment towards large-scale production, and protection of small-scale activities for citizens.<\/p>\n
The Party's position is based on a State that protects its currency and does not finance itself by printing money; domestic production that replaces imports and increases exports; major investment that is welcomed and protected by law; national controlling ownership of sovereign sectors; genuine opportunities for citizens in small-scale activities; and development distributed across producing regions instead of concentrating factories and services in the capital.<\/p>\n
It is also based on adding value within the country. Gold should be refined and manufactured into products; livestock should be transformed into meat, hides and other products; milk should be collected and processed; and groundnuts, hibiscus, gongolez fruit and gum arabic should pass through Sudanese factories before export. Every stage of domestic processing means more jobs, higher returns and additional foreign currency.<\/p>\n
The rule of law remains the foundation of any economic policy. There shall be no expropriation of lawful property without due process and fair compensation, no accusation of counterfeiting or corruption without investigation, and no allocation of investment opportunities or foreign currency through secret deals. The State shall publish its rules, decisions and results in order to restore the confidence of citizens and investors.<\/p>\n
A stable economy cannot be built on a currency whose quantity is unknown, which is easily counterfeited, and of which the authorities can print more whenever they need funds. Before the war, Sudan suffered from undisciplined money printing; the war then led to the loss and looting of quantities of cash and brought large areas outside a single monetary authority.<\/p>\n
Sudanese people have also circulated serious accounts of counterfeit banknotes entering the country from abroad and being used to purchase livestock, crops and gold. The Party does not turn these accounts into accusations against any State or people without evidence. It does, however, call for an independent national investigation and an examination of the money supply, because exchanging the country's resources for counterfeit notes would constitute a direct assault on the national economy.<\/p>\n
Reform begins by announcing a fixed period for depositing the old currency through banks, secure collection points and mobile centres reaching the regions, rural areas and displacement camps. Ordinary amounts shall be accepted through simple procedures, while large amounts shall be subject to source-of-funds checks without any presumption of guilt. Every depositor shall receive a receipt and have the right to object and seek judicial review.<\/p>\n
Following the inventory and examination, a new currency shall be issued with strong security features, and the old currency shall cease to be legal tender at the end of the specified period. Free basic bank accounts shall be opened and electronic payments expanded, while cash shall remain available in areas without reliable networks.<\/p>\n
Neither the government nor any executive or military body may order money to be printed. Issuance shall be the responsibility of an independent central bank under the law, and each issuance shall require a written justification, review by the Auditor General and periodic public disclosure of the amount of currency issued. Financing salaries, war or deficits by printing money outside the budget and the law shall be criminalised.<\/p>\n
As for the quantity of the new currency, it cannot be determined simply by selecting five or ten billion before establishing the value of the new unit and the conversion ratio for the old currency. An initial policy range of five to ten billion units of the new currency may be set as a temporary ceiling, with the final figure determined after the inventory, assessment of market needs and evaluation of the State's ability to provide backing. The objective is the smallest amount sufficient for transactions and production, not the smallest figure merely for appearances.<\/p>\n
Sudan possesses gold that could provide a foundation for restoring confidence. The Party proposes that the State move gradually towards backing half of the monetary base with actual, refined and audited gold. Gold still underground, anticipated production, gold with disputed ownership and pledged gold may not be counted. The backing must consist of gold of known weight and purity, held in the name of the people and available for physical inventory.<\/p>\n
It is not necessary to reach the full fifty per cent on the first day if doing so would delay reform or stifle the economy. The State shall begin with what it actually possesses and increase the backing during the initial years. The Party does not recommend full gold backing, because the country also needs foreign currency to purchase medicines, fuel, equipment and essential goods.<\/p>\n
The State shall purchase gold from individuals and companies at a published price close to the export price, after deducting transparent costs for testing, refining and transport, and shall pay promptly. Low prices and delayed payment encourage producers to smuggle. Gold shall be documented and traceable to protect local communities' rights and prevent the purchase of gold derived from criminal activity.<\/p>\n
The existing refinery, its capacity and the damage it sustained during the war shall be assessed. If it can be rehabilitated, it shall be reopened under professional management; if it is inadequate, a new refinery or refining units shall be established at secure locations. This may be financed through a concessional loan or a time-limited technical partnership, without pledging the reserve or granting the financier permanent ownership of the country's gold. Gold shall be divided between a currency reserve and a portion exported to obtain foreign exchange.<\/p>\n
The vision proposes declaring a wartime and recovery economy for three years. During this period, the US dollar shall be treated as a scarce national resource, directed first to food, medicines, fuel, agricultural and industrial inputs, water, electricity, education, computers, telephones, communications equipment, spare parts and the machinery needed to restart the country.<\/p>\n
Customs duties on essential goods and production inputs shall be reduced, while cosmetics, luxury goods and products for which reasonable local alternatives exist shall be temporarily restricted. A clear list shall be published and reviewed periodically, with a right to appeal where an item is a production input or is needed for health or education.<\/p>\n
The restrictions must not become a monopoly or an opportunity for corruption and smuggling. The names of beneficiaries, quantities and allocated currencies shall be published; prices and profit margins shall be monitored; and anyone who obtains allocated dollars and then smuggles them or sells the goods outside authorised channels shall be penalised. Restrictions shall be phased out as production, exports and reserves recover.<\/p>\n
Telecommunications companies collect substantial revenues in local currency, while companies with foreign ownership need to convert profits, fees and associated service payments into foreign currencies. In an economy with scarce resources, these transfers can increase demand for dollars and put pressure on the exchange rate. The Party therefore regards telecommunications as sovereign infrastructure, not merely an ordinary commercial activity.<\/p>\n
The Party advocates transferring control of telecommunications companies into Sudanese ownership, through the State, national pension and investment funds, or public share offerings to citizens, while allowing a foreign technical partner under a contract that does not confer control. Previous acquisitions shall be reviewed by an independent committee: where their legality is established, the interests concerned shall be purchased through negotiation and fair valuation; where fraud or corruption is established, the matter shall be referred to the courts.<\/p>\n
After control has been localised, telecommunications companies shall receive the foreign exchange needed for equipment, spare parts and technical licences under a published budget. The policy does not seek to isolate the sector from global technology, but to prevent substantial domestic revenues from becoming a permanent drain on the dollar market.<\/p>\n
The Party believes that activities citizens can undertake without substantial foreign capital or technology should provide employment opportunities for Sudanese people. These include restaurants, caf\u00e9s, barber shops, laundries, small retail businesses and similar everyday services. The accumulation of profits from these activities and their transfer abroad creates continuing demand for foreign currency while citizens face unemployment.<\/p>\n
These activities shall be reserved through a general rule applying to the type of activity rather than targeting any particular nationality. New licences for non-citizens shall cease, and existing businesses shall be given a period to regularise their position through sale or genuine transfer of ownership in accordance with the law, with protection for employees and contracts and safeguards against attacks on persons or property.<\/p>\n
By contrast, the Party fully welcomes Arab and international investors bringing substantial capital into agriculture, industry, mining, modern technologies and infrastructure. Such investment creates production, transfers knowledge, provides employment, increases exports and brings in foreign currency. It shall therefore benefit from expedited procedures for licences, land, energy, customs and repatriation of lawful profits, together with stable legal guarantees.<\/p>\n
Priority shall be given to industries that add value to local raw materials rather than exporting them in their primary form. These include processing groundnuts, oils and food products; processing gum arabic; extracting iron and producing iron and steel; refining gold and manufacturing gold products; and other modern mineral and manufacturing industries.<\/p>\n
Manufacturing shall also include hibiscus, gongolez (the fruit of the baobab tree) and other local fruits and crops, producing juices, concentrates, bottled beverages and prepared food products for domestic markets and export, while meeting safety, quality and packaging standards and promoting Sudanese origin.<\/p>\n
The State shall work to establish industrial zones close to sources of raw materials, supplied with electricity, water, roads, laboratories, customs services and export facilities. The aim is to ensure that resources are not exported raw only to return as expensive goods, but are transformed within producing regions into jobs, industries and exports.<\/p>\n
The vision welcomes major partnerships with Arab and international companies in modern agriculture, afforestation and restoration of vegetation cover, particularly in the gum arabic belt and projects combining environmental protection with production and exports. Companies may provide financing, technology and management, and receive returns from the projects under fair and transparent contracts.<\/p>\n
Contracts shall safeguard land ownership, the rights of local communities and the country's share of production and revenues, and shall prevent land grabbing or the exclusion of residents. Incentives shall be linked to what investors actually cultivate, the local processing they establish, the jobs they provide and the foreign currency they bring in.<\/p>\n
The State shall encourage agriculture-related industries, from sorting, drying and cold storage to pressing, packaging and food processing. Increased production alone is insufficient if crops are lost after harvest or exported raw without added value.<\/p>\n
The Party adopts a national programme to improve livestock breeds and increase meat and milk production by importing selected semen and embryos from high-quality breeds and establishing artificial insemination, veterinary services and genetic recording centres in producing regions.<\/p>\n
Improvement shall not involve indiscriminate replacement of local breeds, but carefully planned crossbreeding that preserves their resistance to climate, disease and drought while adding high-production characteristics. Imports shall be subject to testing and veterinary quarantine. Services shall be made available to small breeders and pastoralists at subsidised rates, together with training in feeding, care, reproduction and herd management.<\/p>\n
The State shall encourage local milk collection, cooling and testing centres close to producers and connect them to medium-sized regional factories producing long-life liquid milk and dairy products. Lessons shall be drawn from the Babanusa factory experience by avoiding reliance on a single central factory or a fixed concentration of producers, and by building a flexible network reaching pastoral and producing areas.<\/p>\n
Smaller units may produce pasteurised milk, yoghurt and cheese where cold chains are available, while regional factories undertake processing and aseptic packaging of long-life milk. This model reduces milk losses, provides food and employment, limits imports and opens opportunities for regional exports.<\/p>\n
Modern abattoirs shall be established in major producing areas in Darfur, Kordofan and eastern Sudan, connected to veterinary quarantine facilities, laboratories, cold chains and transport to ports and airports. They shall operate in accordance with health and veterinary standards and the requirements of export markets, enabling the production of quality chilled and frozen meat rather than excessive reliance on exports of live animals.<\/p>\n
The role of abattoirs shall not be confined to meat. Industries shall be established around them to utilise hides, fats, bones, blood, offal and waste that can be processed into animal feed, fertilisers, industrial inputs and other products. Unregulated waste disposal shall be prohibited, and systems for wastewater treatment and protection of the environment and the health of surrounding communities shall be established.<\/p>\n
The Party considers leather manufacturing a priority national industry. It shall launch an initiative inviting citizens, abattoirs and companies voluntarily to donate hides they do not use, especially during seasonal periods, with quantities, proceeds and their use publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n
Contractors in major cities and producing areas shall be licensed to establish hide collection and initial preservation points in return for a stated commission for collection, preservation and transport to regional centres. Commercially valuable hides, however, shall be purchased at a fair price so that free collection does not encourage concealment or smuggling or harm producers.<\/p>\n
Processing and tanning factories shall be established in producing regions, subject to controls for wastewater and waste treatment. Partnerships shall be developed with Arab and international companies to transfer tanning, design and manufacturing technologies, so that exports are not limited to raw hides but include finished leather, shoes, bags, clothing and furniture. The objective is for Sudan to become internationally known for the quality of its leather and leather products, and for wasted hides to become a rapid source of foreign exchange and regional development.<\/p>\n
The vision requires an independent central bank, a currency stability law, a national gold reserve fund, a professional body for gold purchasing and refining, a published system for foreign exchange management, and effective investment, export, standards and veterinary health authorities. Reserve accounts shall be separated from government accounts, and withdrawals from them may not be made by administrative decision.<\/p>\n
The central bank shall regularly publish the amount of currency issued, gold held, foreign exchange available and the reasons for any increase in issuance. Gold purchases, foreign exchange allocations, investment contracts, telecommunications company reviews and industrial projects shall be subject to scrutiny by the Auditor General, the courts and parliamentary oversight once established.<\/p>\n
The State shall consolidate procedures through a one-stop investment service, with published decision-making deadlines and a prohibition on demanding unpublished fees or approvals. Contracts shall protect the public interest and investors' rights at the same time, because productive investment requires a stable State whose decisions can be anticipated.<\/p>\n
In the urgent phase, monetary authority shall be unified, financing through money printing prohibited, the inventory of cash and investigation into counterfeiting commenced, gold holdings inventoried, import and foreign exchange priorities issued, and the review of sovereign sectors and identification of small-scale activities reserved for citizens begun.<\/p>\n
During the recovery phase, the currency shall be replaced, the gold refinery rehabilitated, the State shall begin purchasing gold at competitive prices, milk and hide collection centres shall be established, abattoirs and factories planned in producing regions, and programmes for crop processing, breed improvement and afforestation launched.<\/p>\n
During the reconstruction phase, industries, exports and banking payments shall expand, the proportion of gold backing shall rise, import restrictions shall gradually be relaxed, and major investments shall enter agriculture, mining, technology and infrastructure under stable and transparent contracts.<\/p>\n
The Party's vision is to move from an economy that prints money, exports raw materials and imports finished goods to one that protects its currency and processes its resources domestically. Currency is part of the solution, but it will not stabilise unless production increases, the waste of gold, crops, milk and hides stops, and investment is directed towards industry, agriculture, technology and exports.<\/p>\n
The document does not propose closing Sudan to the world. It reserves small-scale activities for citizens, but fully opens the door to major Arab and international investment that establishes factories, farms, technologies, abattoirs, processing centres and afforestation projects, adds value to local raw materials, creates employment and brings in foreign currency.<\/p>\n
This is a preliminary vision for discussion and development. It shall become an executive programme after peace and the unification of State institutions, completion of inventories and technical studies, enactment of legislation, and the participation of experts, producers, investors and local communities in developing its details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":10,"template":"","document_collection":[50],"class_list":["post-213","party_document","type-party_document","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmsdemo.com\/projects\/sudan-independent-party\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/party_document\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmsdemo.com\/projects\/sudan-independent-party\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/party_document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmsdemo.com\/projects\/sudan-independent-party\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/party_document"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmsdemo.com\/projects\/sudan-independent-party\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/party_document\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmsdemo.com\/projects\/sudan-independent-party\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"document_collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmsdemo.com\/projects\/sudan-independent-party\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_collection?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}