Sudan's basic income scheme aims to ease economic pain


  • World
  • Friday, 30 Apr 2021

Magda Ahmed Sudanese mother of orphan children who applied for Sudanrsquos Thamarat Family Support Programme holds a bowl of food in South Khartoum April 26 2021. REUTERSEl-Tayeb Siddig

Magda Ahmed, Sudanese mother of orphan children who applied for Sudan’s Thamarat Family Support Programme, holds a bowl of food in South Khartoum April 26, 2021. REUTERS/El-Tayeb Siddig

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - For Intisar Altayib, who ekes out a living drawing henna tattoos in Khartoum, soaring prices in Sudan mean running up tabs at local stores and cutting back on evening feasts during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

She is one of millions struggling through an economic crisis that has deepened as Sudan tries to emerge from decades of isolation and conflict. Inflation has risen to more than 340% and there are shortages of everything from power to medicines.

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