About the AUD/SDG rate
The AUD/SDG rate is how many SDG one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/SDG rate history.
The other directions of this rate: the reverse rate, SDG → AUD, is on the receiving Sudanese pound view, and sending Australian dollars to Sudan is covered on the AUD → SDG transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
Why lifting sanctions did not restore the payment rails
The comprehensive United States trade embargo on Sudan dated from Executive Order 13067 of 3 November 1997, which declared a national emergency and blocked Government of Sudan property. The Office of Foreign Assets Control records that sections 1 and 2 of that order, together with the whole of a later 2006 order, were revoked effective 12 October 2017, and that it removed the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations the following June. Revocation did not end the story, because a second and separate designation remained. The same Office records that the determination regarding Sudan as a State Sponsor of Terrorism was rescinded on 14 December 2020, and that Sudan thereby ceased to be subject to the Terrorism List Governments Sanctions Regulations. Two distinct regimes, lifted three years apart.
Lifting both did not restore the payment rails. The International Monetary Fund, in its 2021 assessment supporting a new arrangement for Sudan, identified a stronger anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing regime as what was needed to broaden what it described as a limited network of correspondent banking relationships. That was written four years after the trade embargo was revoked and six months after the terrorism designation was rescinded, so on the Fund's account the constraint at that date was compliance capacity rather than a remaining prohibition.
Re-engagement did proceed on the official side. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank announced on 29 June 2021 that Sudan had reached decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative, the thirty-eighth country to do so, qualifying it for substantial debt relief conditional on continued reform.
Sources: Office of Foreign Assets Control, United States Department of the Treasury, Sudan, Darfur and South Sudan-related sanctions frequently asked questions · World Bank, Sudan to Receive Debt Relief Under the HIPC Initiative, 29 June 2021 · International Monetary Fund, Sudan: Request for a 39-Month Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility, Country Report No. 21/142, June 2021