Sudan’s Finance Ministry Warns Inflation Is Eroding Wage Increases

The official spokesperson for Sudan’s Ministry of Finance, Dr. Ahmed Al-Sharif, said that the approval of wage increases represents a rightful step aimed at delivering fairness to state employees and pensioners who have faced years of marginalization. He also commended the national role of the regular forces in protecting the country.

Speaking to Nabd Al-Sudan, Al-Sharif warned that market dynamics had already begun eroding the impact of the wage increases, noting that rising prices had absorbed much of the benefit even before the increases took effect. He described inflation as the “cancer of the economy,” warning that it threatens the stability of citizens’ living conditions.

Al-Sharif stressed the need to adopt practical measures to confront the challenge, including expanding social protection programs to cover poor and vulnerable groups, strengthening market monitoring to curb profiteering by traders, and activating cooperative societies to provide essential goods at fair prices.

He further called for increasing the value added to Sudanese exports in order to attract foreign currency and contribute to stabilizing the Sudanese pound against the US dollar, emphasizing that addressing inflation remains essential to ensuring that wage increases translate into real improvements in citizens’ livelihoods.