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'Hunger is worse than corona': Sudanese demand end to lockdown amid economic woes
Reuters
Khalid Abdelaziz
June 8, 2020
10:04 AM EDT
KHARTOUM — Like many Sudanese, car mechanic Mohamed Othman says the government must end its coronavirus lockdown now so that he can get back to work because “me and my family have no other source of income.”
The transitional civilian government, which runs Sudan under a power-sharing deal with the army, ordered most businesses, markets, schools and mosques to shut and imposed travel restrictions nearly two months ago.
But it is facing growing demands to end the restrictions from a population mired in poverty and facing annual inflation of nearly 100% as well as complaints that promised aid for poorer Sudanese has failed to materialize...
'Hunger is worse than corona': Sudanese demand end to lockdown amid economic woes
Reuters
Khalid Abdelaziz
June 8, 2020
10:04 AM EDT
KHARTOUM — Like many Sudanese, car mechanic Mohamed Othman says the government must end its coronavirus lockdown now so that he can get back to work because “me and my family have no other source of income.”
The transitional civilian government, which runs Sudan under a power-sharing deal with the army, ordered most businesses, markets, schools and mosques to shut and imposed travel restrictions nearly two months ago.
But it is facing growing demands to end the restrictions from a population mired in poverty and facing annual inflation of nearly 100% as well as complaints that promised aid for poorer Sudanese has failed to materialize...