Tragic Conditions in Nyala: Immense Price Hikes and Lack of Basic Services

Nyala – Sudanhorizon 

Eyewitnesses in Nyala said today, on Sunday, that the city’s residents are suffering a real tragedy in the absence of security, shortage of food and medicine, lack of water and electricity services, and the hospitals and treatment centres are out of service, with the insistence of the rebel Rapid Support Forces militia to turn hospitals into centres for treating their wounded, in addition to imposing fees on citizens for moving within the city’s neighbourhoods.

An eyewitness told the Sudanhorizon news website that prices are doubling every morning and that the price of a sack of millet has reached 260 thousand pounds (equivalent to 150 dollars) and a kilo of sugar 3600 pounds (about two dollars) and that most people there depend on (Takeeya), which is the collective food donated by organisations and charitable people from the wealthy, and that the reason for this is the chaos of the markets and the absence of authority.

Witnesses confirmed that large numbers of citizens, exceeding thousands, left for South Sudan on arduous journeys in which they were exposed to hardships that resulted in the loss of the lives of several patients and elderly people.