SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: al-Sudani - Shocks continue as fuel prices rise

10/6/2021: al-Sudani - Shocks continue as fuel prices rise, by al-Tayib Ali

Al-Sudani feature piece provided insights on the fuel price increases.

Dr. Asawar Adam, a leader of the Economic Alliance for the Forces of the December Revolution, called for peaceful protests against the fuel price increases, alleging that the 2021 budget shows that the government reaps huge profits from selling fuel, as the government “resorts to the pockets of the downtrodden citizens to spend on their bloated government apparatus [while] they gave infrastructure, education and agriculture 3, 16 and 11 billion respectively. 

Former Energy Minister (resigned in 2020), Adel Ali Ibrahim, suggests that the government should have worked to stabilise the exchange rate before resorting to the latest increase.

Economic analyst Dr. Abdelazim Al-Mahal said that the decision to raise prices reflects a disconnect in the decision-making, procedures, policies and plans between the citizen and the rules, who “do not feel what the citizen feels”.