Sudan’s spiralling economic crisis deepened on Thursday as the U.S. dollar crossed 2,900 Sudanese pounds on the parallel market and the “customs dollar” rate hit 2,400 pounds, according to opposition figure Babakr Faisal.
Faisal, executive head of the Samoud (Resilience) Alliance and a senior official in the Federal Gathering party, warned that the country “is sliding at frightening speed toward the abyss” while rival military leaders fight for power from their coastal redoubt in Port Sudan.
“Government ministries that rely on their own revenues can’t even pay salaries. It’s the economy, stupid!” he wrote on social media.
Faisal dismissed newly formed “sovereign committees” tasked with rebuilding war‑ruined Khartoum as a placebo with “no practical effect,” and urged SAF to recognise that “the tear in the national fabric is now too wide for tactical fixes.”
He said only an immediate return to negotiations can avert catastrophe: “A military solution was impossible from day one; the threat of partition is now a reality.”
Scenes of displaced families crowding highways “with eyes hollow and dim” underscore the urgency, Faisal added, calling for “bold, decisive steps” from Sudan’s top brass before the economy and the state itself unravel.
