Enough is Enough: Sudan Will Not Succumb to the World Bank’s Poisoned Agendas

By Dr. Abdelaziz Al-Zubair Basha
Once again, the World Bank drops its deceptive mask, pretending to care about the “Sudanese people,” while its latest report — released in June 2025 under the title “The Economic and Social Consequences of Conflict: Charting a Path to Recovery” — clearly reveals its true intentions: imposing economic and political guardianship over Sudan and blatantly interfering in its sovereign decisions under the guise of technical support and structural reforms.
But this time, your plans will not pass. The Sudanese people have awakened. The legitimate government, led by the Transitional Sovereign Council and backed by widespread popular support, fully understands the dimensions of this soft offensive you are waging under the pretence of economic aid.
The World Bank Report:
A Hollow Language of Numbers Hiding a Colonial Agenda
What the World Bank calls a “recovery roadmap” is nothing more than a ready-made recipe to strip Sudan of its economic sovereignty and push it once again into the deceptive whirlpool of absolute dependency on the West. The tools are well known: debt traps, subsidy cuts, currency devaluation, and dismantling of the public sector in favour of a handful of international investors linked to donor institutions.
Let us ask:
Who is responsible for Sudan’s economic collapse if not the financial and political blockade imposed on the country since it refused to submit to regional and international agendas?
Where was the World Bank when foreign-backed militias were being financed?
And where was it in supporting Sudan in its existential struggle against a blatant invasion designed to alter its demographic composition and seize control of its national decision-making?
This Is How They Conspire in the Name of “Reform”
The World Bank calls for:
“Reducing arbitrary subsidies”
— meaning, abandon the poor to hunger, power outages, water scarcity, and lack of medicine…
“Unifying exchange rates”
— in other words, re-float the Sudanese pound and tie Sudan to the black market and foreign institutions’ whims…
“Limiting the role of the military economy”
— even as Sudan faces a foreign-funded ground invasion, and its people rely on the Armed Forces for protection…
“Redirecting spending away from security institutions.”
— at a time of extreme national emergency…
These are calls to weaken the state and dismantle its defence and economic institutions for the benefit of the so-called “international community” — the same community that stood idle while civilians were being massacred, but now rushes to impose financial conditions in return for empty promises of support.
No to Conditional Initiatives… No to Neocolonialism via HIPC
They want Sudan to resume the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative — as if we do not know that this initiative, in past cases, has been a sword over the necks of nations, decimating vital sectors such as education and health, all in exchange for a “financial absolution certificate” conditioned on surrendering economic sovereignty and opening the country’s markets to international plunder.
Agriculture Is Not a New Discovery — They Just Want to Control It
When the Bank talks about agriculture as a key to recovery, it is not about supporting the simple Sudanese farmer. Rather, it’s a prelude to allowing foreign companies to buy land for pennies and exploit the country’s resources for export instead of achieving domestic food security. The Gezira Project was burned down, and infrastructure was deliberately destroyed — yet we heard no condemnation from international financial institutions.
Who Are You to Decide How We Rebuild Our Country?
We categorically reject attempts to depict the Sudanese people as helpless victims waiting for your ready-made formulas. Sudan is not a laboratory for your neoliberal experiments. We are a people with will; we have our legitimate government, our Sovereign Council, and a new executive leadership represented by a Prime Minister who emerged from a national consensus between the people and their institutions.
Our Message to the World Bank:
You will not pass.
No to extorting nations through fabricated economic reports.
No to exploiting conflicts to resurrect dependency regimes.
No to marginalizing national will in the name of “reform.”
Sudan today is not what it was.
We are united — behind our army, our resistance, our leadership, and our honourable President.
We will rise — not because of you, but despite you.
History will not forgive,
The memory of nations is longer than your report archives,
And sovereignty is a red line — we will not compromise,
And we will not let you make it just another ‘reform item’ in your documents.

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