Prices soar in Mukjar, Central Darfur

Residents of Mukjar complain about the soaring prices of consumer goods. Gunmen are stealing livestock from herders. The people in Mukjar locality are complaining about the continuing price rises, a listener told radio Dabanga from Mukjar town. “The price of a 100kg-sack of millet has risen to SDG700 ($123), a bottle of cooking oil to SDG30 ($5.25). A pound of dry okra now costs SDG50 ($8.75), and a pound of sugar SDG4 ($0.70). We now pay SDG4 for a piece of soap.” The source said that people in the rural areas around the town complain about their livestock being stolen by gunmen. “On Wednesday afternoon, four Janjaweed on camelback, wearing military uniforms, threatened herders in the area of El Kamayin, located one km south of Mukjar,” a listener in Mukjar told Radio Dabanga. “They seized 22 goats belonging to Eisa Abdel Karim Adam, and 11 belonging to Abdel Karim Eisa Abdel Karim.” File photo Related: Situation dire in Central Darfur camp as prices soar, food rations cut (10 July 2014) Sudan inflation hits 45.3% in June (7 July 2014) Ramadan food prices soar in Darfur (1 July 2014)Prices of consumer goods soar in El Sareif, North Darfur (29 June 2014)