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In September 2018, Hamdok was named as Minister of Finance under the Omar al-Bashir presidency of Sudan, but refused the nomination. Prime Minister of Sudan Hamdok with Steven Mnuchin at U.S. Treasury in 2019
Suggestions were me in June 2019 by a spokesperson of the Forces of dom and Change (FFC) and in August 2019 by The Sudan Daily that Hamdok would be proposed as Prime Minister of Sudan by the FFC, which negotiated the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy with the Transitional Military Council. The transition procedures were ally defined in the Political Agreement signed on 17 July 2019 by the FFC and TMC and the Draft Constitutional Declaration signed by the FFC and the TMC on 4 August 2019.
The Sovereignty Council of Sudan appointed Hamdok to be Prime Minister on 20 August, as required by the Draft Constitutional Declaration. He was subsequently sworn in on 21 August. Under Article 19 of the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration, as a minister during the transitional period, Hamdok is forbidden (along with other senior transition leers) from running in the 2022 Sudanese general election scheduled to end the transitional period.
As prime minister, Hamdok selected a cabinet of ministers. On 4 October 2019, he purged the leership of public Sudanese universities, dismissing 28 llors and 35 vice-llors and appointed 34 vice-llors. The aim was to replace people in positions of power representing the al-Bashir government. Assassination attempt
On 9 March 2020, a car explosion tared Hamdok and his motorce in an assassination attempt in the capital Khartoum. The culprit(s) has yet to be publicly identified. At least 3 vehicles were damaged in the attempt, but t were no casualties except for one security officer who was "lightly wounded." October 2021 coup
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