{"id":179237,"date":"2016-12-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/transport-crisis-developing-in-sudan-capital\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:00:00","slug":"transport-crisis-developing-in-sudan-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/transport-crisis-developing-in-sudan-capital","title":{"rendered":"Transport crisis developing in Sudan capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Sunday afternoon, the centre of Khartoum witnessed hundreds of people waiting in vain for public transport. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people were forced to return home on foot, a resident of Omdurman told Radio Dabanga.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, only 9,000 out of the about 20,000 city buses in Khartoum are currently working.<\/p>\n<p>Many bus owners cannot afford to operate the buses because of the high operating costs, caused by recurrent maintenance expenses and soaring fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>An official of the Khartoum Transportation Association earlier acknowledged that the buses imported from China over the past two years are not meeting the quality standards.<\/p>\n<p>On 3 November, the Sudanese government lifted the subsidy on fuel tariffs, the first of a series of austerity measures taken &ldquo;to avoid the collapse of the country&rdquo; as&nbsp;President Omar Al Bashir stated. 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