The Truth’s Face | Ibrahim Shaglawi “Pamper Us, Government…”

The phrase “Pamper us, government” may seem like a departure from the familiar language of politics, but at its core it is a serious popular appeal carrying a clear demand: that the state return to its citizens, and that politics recover its meaning after a war that scattered the details of life and its safe order. Here, it is important to Dr. Al-Bouni, who excels at using colloquial language within journalistic texts, turning popular speech into a political voice without losing its intellectual dignity. In this context, the phrase is an analytical gateway to a scene too complex to be contained by dry formal language.

The government of Dr. Kamel Idris chose to begin from the heart of Khartoum, affirming that the state is not run from a distance, but from its center of authority. Despite the complexities of the transition, the government seeks to reconnect politics with people’s livelihoods—through bread, water, electricity, education, and voluntary return—as a gateway to real stability.

This was confirmed yesterday by the Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Dr. Lamyaa Abdel Ghafar, in a press conference in Khartoum, when she explained that the core of the government’s work is focused on protecting people’s livelihoods and improving basic services, considering that stability begins with bread, medicine, and school before any political slogans. She also indicated that the emergency budget focused on employees’ salaries, education, and health, in parallel with restoring the regular functioning of state institutions, strengthening institutional governance, and digital transformation to combat corruption and speed up service delivery.

These paths did not emerge in a vacuum, but rather as a result of a deep awareness of the consequences of a war that broke out in April 2023 as an attempted rapid political coup, in which some political forces sought to exploit the gun of the Rapid Support Forces to re-engineer power without popular mandate or a realistic reading of the balance of public weight.

However, that attempt ignored entrenched facts: the cohesion of the military institution, the readiness of the security services, the expansion of popular resistance, and the collapse of the bets of regional backers who waged a proxy war in pursuit of the country’s resources and its strategic location on the Red Sea.

Sudan entered this confrontation knowing it is a battle of existence. And whoever fights a war in defense of their being has no option but steadfastness—either to prevail or to perish.

In this context, it was not surprising that the government opened passport issuance windows to secure the departure of families—an and humanitarian reading aimed at easing pressure on the internal front and allowing room for a war that may be prolonged. In parallel, emergency service networks were formed, Khartoum North (Karari) was transformed into a miniature capital, and other states under state control remained resilient, where citizens were left with the choice between staying, internal displacement, or external migration.

Now, after the scene has changed, everyone who returns to Khartoum State—whether displaced, a refugee, or from any place in the country from which war drove them—faces the decisive question: how can they secure their livelihood to support themselves and their families, especially in terms of basic life needs such as shelter, food, health, and education? This question is not merely a personal concern, but an indicator of the state’s ability to create an environment fit for living and working, and to make return a possible and attractive choice.

At the heart of this equation stand job opportunities as the most important indicator of the government’s success in managing the file of stability. A government job, private-sector work, or opening a new business are practical conditions for return. Any serious government plan must include clear and declared indicators for these opportunities, so that the citizen feels the state is offering tangible ground rather than suspended promises.

Alongside this, basic services—water, electricity, sanitation, education, health—remain practical tools for rebuilding trust between citizen and state. The government’s success remains tied to its ability to manage resources firmly, rationalize spending, ensure the payment of salaries and pensions, and maintain close monitoring of performance indicators from the highest levels of authority to the lowest executive units.

The humanitarian dimension of return cannot be ignored. As seen in the symbolic scene of the Prime Minister greeting children in the streets and sending reassurance that the capital is safe, the importance of operating voluntary return flights from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states forms a vital support for restoring family and social cohesion. Perhaps the Kingdom undertook this, returned our families, and restored to Khartoum part of its natural pulse, making these flights a practical symbol of state policy in enabling citizens to return safely and with dignity.

Within this framework, the phrase “Pamper us, government” shifts from a mere popular expression into a practical and real demand: pamper us with opportunities, pamper us with services, pamper us by facilitating voluntary return, pamper us with precise monitoring of government performance, and with clear indicators that citizens can feel in their daily lives. A state that sets tangible indicators in job opportunities, public services, and financial resources, and that continuously monitors these indicators, is the state capable of restoring trust to its citizens and turning Khartoum into a heart beating with life once again.

According to #TheTruth’sFace, attention to these indicators is not a luxury but a political and moral necessity, because they place every official before a constant test. And when promises turn into tangible reality, the social contract between the state and its citizens is reshaped, and Khartoum returns as a heart pulsating with life, not merely a symbol of resilience.

Wishing you well and in good health.

Monday, 2 February 2026

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