administrator who served in numerous international administrative positions during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, was nominated by the FFC as Prime Minister and formally sworn in on 21 August 2019. Women's participation On 18 August 2019, the Sudanese Women's Union stated that women had not been consulted in the preparation of a list of candidates for ministerial posts for the 2019–2022 Transitional Cabinet, and that few women were among the candidates. Women in senior positions in the transitional period institutions include Aisha Musa el-Said and Raja Nicola in the Sovereignty Council of Sudan. The Sudanese Women's Union argued that women had played as significant a role as men in the political changes of 2019 and that Sudanese women "claim an equal share of 50-50 with men at all levels, measured by qualifications and capabilities". Women Ministers in the Hamdok Cabinet include Asma Mohamed Abdalla as Foreign Minister, Lena el-Sheikh Mahjoub as Minister of Social Development and Labour, Wala'a Essam al-Boushi as Minister for Youth and Sports, Intisar el-Zein Soughayroun as Minister of Higher Education. Budget The al-Bashir annual national budgets mostly funded Sudanese security and other armed forces (70 percent in 2016), with the 2018 budget allocating 3 percent to education. In November 2019, a plan to raise the fraction of the budget allocated to education to 20 percent was announced. Ministers of the Hamdok Cabinet In September 2019, 20 ministries were planned. References External links Ministry of the Cabinet Affairs, Republic of Sudan Sudan, Cabinet Government of Sudan