Sudan Country faces water and food shortage | Latest English News
Moving on. Now Sudan is facing its worst economic crisis since the military coup in October 2021. Some parts of the country, like the Yonderman, is facing water shortages.
In Karthum, uncollected rubbish litters the streets, while power cuts in the country is causing traffic jams at intersections.
The war in Ukraine is also contributing to the problem, as the cost of everything in the market is inflated.
Here's a report on the same in. Omdurman, across the White Nile from Sudan's capital. Cartoon the local water supply has been dry for weeks.
To wash and drink, people have to buy from private tankers, one cost of a political stalemate since a military coup in October in the Al Shigler neighborhood rest in Abdala Alsaid says a lack of water is a big problem.
Unless in terms of health, we cannot clean properly, wash clothes or clean bathrooms, so health problems happen. This is along with the financial problems, because we are obliged to buy water even for drinking.
It's not just residents struggling with their finances. In response to military takeover, the international community turned off a tap on billions of dollars in funding, just as war in Ukraine pushed the cost of key imports higher.
Finance Minister Gibril Ibrahim. During 2022 and 2023, we were expecting nearly $4 billion from the World Bank, including $500 million for irrigation and drinking water and $780,000,000 for electricity.
Ibrahim said. The government has refrained from printing money to finance the deficit, and that state revenue rose by two thirds over the past six months.
But inflation means spending has grown even faster. The monthly bill for public sector salaries alone stands at $394,000,000, up from $118,000,000 at the start of the year.
That's on top, Ibrahim said. The rising costs of fuel, wheat and other imports. There is some relief on the horizon after the United Arab Emirates agreed to build a new Red Sea port in Sudan as part of a $6 billion investment package.
The deal, according to one of the partners, will include a free trade zone, a large agricultural project and, perhaps crucially, an imminent 300 million dollar deposit to Sudan's central bank.
But in the meantime, citizens continue to struggle with crumbling services.
In Khartoum, uncollected rubbish litters the streets. Major intersections are often jammed as traffic lights lose power in an economy that appears to be grinding to a halt.