SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters – Sudan's economy sinks as post-coup leadership searches for support
Reuters report that an accelerated breakdown in services including water and electricity supplies has left Sudanese citizens counting the cost of the military coup of October 2021, with finance minister and coup backer Jibril Ibrahim said “had a significant impact on the economy,” citing the suspension of about $4 billion in Western aid and halting of big projects in electricity, irrigation, and rural development.
Resident of al-Shigla, across the White Nile from Khartoum said water supply has been dry despite the Nile river being just a kilometre away, with Reuters describing the neighbourhood’s road as “dotted with stagnant, green pools of water and uncollected rubbish.”
In Khartoum, major intersections are often jammed as traffic lights lose power, with officials at Khartoum's water authority blaming a lack of government funding to maintain water stations or pipes for a growing population. Frequent power outages disable water pumps, they said.