exacerbated the increase fuel prices announced by the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum SudaneseLast Thursday, from citizens’ lives crises, and led to increases in public transport fares, transport costs and food prices.
The government had raised the price of petrol from £672 to £720 per liter and petrol from £522 to £620 per liter (one dollar = about £570), which negatively affected the cost of production, raised transport prices and increased the pressure of the waist . The last increase in fuel prices this year was last July.
Announcing the increase, the Energy and Petroleum Ministry said in a statement that it “has approved the increase after the periodic review it is carrying out with free and private import companies to keep pace with changes in the global oil market”.
Sudanese citizen Nafisa Jaafar told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the high cost of fuel increases the cost of living for employees who are already suffering from low wages and high prices of various consumer goods due to rising costs of transport.
The government has asked to address these increases in order to reduce the burden on the citizen.
The head of the family, Hammad al-Zein, in his interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, underlined the direct damage to the citizen of the increases announced by the government, especially in fuel, indicating the concern of all the productive sectors for these increases to begin to charge them to citizens.
Al-Zein expected further increases in tariffs for transport and consumer goods. He said: The Sudanese people have become unable to afford food, education and health care costs, due to the high prices of everything without exception.
Former director of the oil supply department of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, Jamal Hassan, described to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed the increase announced by the ministry as high and illogical, noting that the price differences and the of calculation are not clear.
And indicated that the prices are calculated according to the international price, port arrival price, marine insurance fees, transportation and profits of the importing company or person, and the total cost is much lower than the advertised price.
Khartoum gas station agents told The New Arab that the new increase is not significant, but affects the amount of daily purchases by citizens and institutions.
Former director of the Ministry of Energy and Oil’s oil supplies department, Jamal Hassan, described to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed the increase announced by the ministry as high and illogical.
An official at a Khartoum petrol station told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the effect of the increase is evident during the current week, predicting a decrease in the percentage of “fuel” (full filling of the car with fuel ) for public and private vehicles as a result of the decision, and a decrease in the daily fuel rations that are supplied to the station from major depots.
A Khartoum Bahri station agent told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the decision causes a strong stagnation in the buying and selling movements in fuel distribution points in general, especially if the series of increases continues, in addition to the citizen bear any new costs.
Sudan’s oil production declined following South Sudan’s secession in 2011, from 450,000 barrels to less than 100,000 barrels, forcing the government to import more than 60 percent of the fuel to cover the domestic consumption shortfall.
Consumer goods trader in Khartoum, Al-Taher Awad, told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the increase in fuel will be reflected in the prices of transportation of goods and raw materials from factories to markets, and their prices will increase by new, which will exacerbate the recession and stagnation.
