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  • 'Hunger is worse than corona': Sudanese demand end to lockdown amid economic woes

    Source: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health-...-economic-woes

    '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...
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