{"id":176457,"date":"2018-04-23T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/fuel-crisis-paralyses-public-transport-in-sudan\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:29:00","slug":"fuel-crisis-paralyses-public-transport-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/fuel-crisis-paralyses-public-transport-in-sudan","title":{"rendered":"Fuel crisis paralyses public transport in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ongoing scarcity of fuel in Sudan is disrupting transportation in various parts of the country. An employee of El Jeili Refineries expects the crisis to continue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The prices of bus tickets and transportation fares by car between towns in West Kordofan doubled or almost tripled this month.<\/p>\n

“The fare from Abu Zabad to El Fula has risen from SDG 70 ($ 4*) to SDG 150,” the owner of a rental car told Radio Dabanga on Sunday. “The price for a seat from El Fula to El Obeid [capital of North Kordofan] has risen from SDG 120 to SDG 400.”<\/p>\n

An official reported from the West Kordofan capital of El Fula that the fuel crisis is as well disrupting the work of government employees in the state.<\/p>\n

Khartoum and Wad Madani, Kassala, Port Sudan as well as other state capitals are witnessing long queues of vehicles in front of fuel stations again.<\/p>\n

A listener in White Nile State complained about “a significant increase in the prices of consumer goods”. He attributed the soaring prices to the risen transportation costs.<\/p>\n

Agriculture<\/strong><\/p>\n

The continuing lack of fuel is as well threatening the upcoming agricultural season.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, farmers in El Gedaref<\/a> and El Gezira warned<\/a> for a failure of the coming agricultural season – that will start in May.<\/p>\n

A farmer in El Abbasiya in South Kordofan told this station on Sunday that “the agricultural season will fail, if we do not get fuel next month”.<\/p>\n

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Lining up for petrol in Kassala in eastern Sudan<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Refineries shut<\/strong><\/p>\n

An employee of El Jeili Refineries north of Khartoum that stopped operating a month ago because of annual maintenance, attributed the scarcity of fuel to the reduction of quotas of petroleum products distributed to companies.<\/p>\n

“The crisis will most probably continue,” he told this station. “I doubt the Ministry of Oil will be able to meet the consumption needs after the government’s stocks decreased.”<\/p>\n

In December last year, economists predicted a serious fuel crisis<\/a> after the the final decommissioning of the Port Sudan refinery, and the shutdown of El Jeili refinery for maintenance in early March.<\/p>\n

* Based on the official US Dollar rate quoted by the Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n