Activities have been taking place in Sudan as part of the annual international 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) since November 25, with extra attention on the position of displaced women. The No to Women's Oppression Initiative commenced its part of the international campaign with various activities today.
Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), El Hadi Idris, met at the Ambassador of Kingdom of the Netherlands to Sudan, Irma van Dueren, at the Republican Place in Khartoum on Monday. The meeting reviewed the historic relations linking Sudan and the Kingdom of the Netherlands in addition to aspects of joint cooperation between Khartoum and Amsterdam, according to the official Sudan News Agency (SUNA).
Samarat (Fruits) families support project was launched by Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok in February.
The direct cash support programme is financially supported by both the World Bank and the European Union, and aims to increase the purchasing power of Sudanese families by providing “each qualified person in a household five USD, initially for a period of six months.
“Subject to funding availability, the transfers will be ramped up to twelve months, with the aim of eventually reaching 80 per cent of the population or nearly 32 million citizens,” the World Bank stated in March.
The $5 which most Sudanese are supposed to receive each month currently equals about SDG2,230, the average price for 20 loaves of bread or a kilogram of meat. The amount is often not enough to cover the price of simple medicines, economic analyst Hafiz Ismail said in an interview with Radio Dabanga last month.
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