Sudan’s soaring fuel prices make getting by harder for workers

In Port Sudan, 60-year-old minibus driver Azhari Mohamed now spends two days working and a third queuing for fuel. He can wait more than five hours without getting to fill his tank as fuel grows scarce and prices rise: a gallon costs 35,000 Sudanese pounds in Port Sudan and 40,000 in Gazira State. After vehicle operating costs, he has only about 50,000 pounds a day left to support his family and help pay his university-going daughter’s expenses.