exacerbated the increase fuel prices announced by the Ministry of Energy and Oil SudaneseLast Thursday, from the living crises of citizens, and led to increases in public transportation tariffs, freight costs, and food prices.
The government had raised the price of gasoline from 672 to 720 pounds per liter, and gasoline from 522 to 620 pounds per liter (one dollar = about 570 pounds), which negatively affected the cost of production, raised transportation prices, and increased living pressures. The last increase in fuel prices this year was last July.
Announcing the increase, the Ministry of Energy and Oil said, in a statement, that it “approved the increase after the periodic review it is carrying out with free and private import companies to keep pace with the 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 poor salaries and high prices of various consumer goods due to the increase in transportation costs.
The government called for dealing with such increases in order to reduce the burden on the citizen.
The head of the family, Hammad al-Zein, pointed out, in his interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, the direct damages of the increases announced by the government, especially in fuel, to the citizen, indicating the eagerness of all productive sectors for these increases to begin charging them to citizens.
Al-Zein expected new increases in transportation and consumer goods tariffs. He said: The Sudanese people have become unable to afford food, education and health expenses, due to the high prices of everything without exception.
The former director of the Oil Supplies Department at the Ministry of Energy and Oil, 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 methods of calculating them are not clear.
And he indicated that the prices are calculated according to the international price, the port arrival price, marine insurance fees, transportation, and the profits of the company or the importing person, and the cost of that in total is much less than the announced price.
Agents of petrol stations in Khartoum told The New Arab that the new increase is not significant, but it affects the amount of daily purchases by citizens and institutions.
The former director of the Oil Supplies Department at the Ministry of Energy and Oil, Jamal Hassan, described to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed the increase announced by the ministry as high and illogical.
An official at a fuel station in Khartoum told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the effect of the increase is evident during the current week, expecting a decrease in the percentage of “fuel” (full filling of the car with fuel) for public and private vehicles following the decision, and a decrease in the daily rations of fuel that are supplied to the station from the main warehouses. .
A station agent in Khartoum Bahri told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the decision causes a major stagnation in the buying and selling movements in fuel distribution outlets in general, especially if the series of increases continues, in addition to the citizen bearing any new costs.
Sudan’s oil production declined following the secession of South Sudan in 2011, from 450,000 barrels to less than 100,000 barrels, forcing the government to import more than 60% of the fuel to cover the deficit in domestic consumption.
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 transporting goods and commodities from factories to markets, and their prices will rise again, which will deepen recession and stagnation.