Fuel crisis critical in Khartoum and across Sudan

The fuel crisis in various states has intensified as hundreds of vehicles and trucks have been forming long queues at fuel stations in Khartoum for the fifth day in a row, leading to a scarcity of public transport and overcrowding in the main stations of the capital.

Eastern Sudan has suffered of cooking gas and fuel crisis.

The owner of a fuel station attributed the crisis to reducing the daily quota from the Petroleum Department and pointed out that they have not received their quota of fuel for some time.

Residents of El Gezira stressed the lack of fuel where a gallon of gasoline has amounted to SDG 200 together with rise of and the tariff of transportation.

In eastern Sudan the locality of New Halfa in Kassala has witnessed a severe fuel and cooking gas crisis for days. Ahmed Babikir reported to Radio Dabanga the shortage of fuel at the stations.

He explained that the stations provide the vehicles with specific quantities of fuel and the number of vehicles supplied in a day is about 100.

He pointed to the queueing of vehicles in front of the stations for days to obtain limited amounts of fuel.

He revealed the lack of cooking gas cylinders belonging to different warehouses and agencies, pointing to the suffering of citizens to obtain them.

In Central Sudan vehicle drivers in Wad Madani have complained of the total lack of fuel at the stations that caused a severe traffic crisis since Wednesday,.

A driver told Radio Dabanga that he had left his vehicle at the fuel station and returned home on foot.

He said they have to raise the tariff to ten Pounds instead of five because of the fuel crisis.

In the state of the Nile River, residents of Shendi have complained about the fuel crisis, which entered its eleventh day in a row and reported the lack of transportation and increase the value of the ticket after the price of a gallon of gasoline has amounted to SDG100, demanding the authorities to intervene to resolve the crisis.

Residents of El Mazroub in North Kordofan have complained of rise of commodity prices.

They pointed out to the rise of prices of bread causing the residents to live in constant suffering to obtain bread.