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Konyo Konyo Market in Juba, South Sudan. [Photo: JA Akec, 2017]
Traders in the Juba are treating the gains made by the South Sudanese Pound (SSP) against the US Dollar with cautious circumspection and say they are skeptical that the local currency will remain stable because prices of commodities in the market have not fallen.
Early last week, the SSP gained against the USD as a result of the Central Bank injecting USD 5 million into the market by auctioning the hard currency to commercial banks and forex exchange bureaus.
David Onyango, a black market forex trader in Juba told Radio Tamazuj that his business had lost its profitability because the Bank of South Sudan had flooded the market with US dollars.
Traders count losses after fire razes shops at Jebel market
Property worth 20,000 US dollars was lost after a fire razed shops and businesses in Juba’s Jebel market on Monday.
The fire, whose cause is yet to be established, started at around 4:00 am in a section of the market. However, no one was injured during the incident.
Hussein Madin Ali, a trader whose shop was consumed by the fire, told Radio Tamazuj that they have incurred huge losses, pointing out that the information about the fire outbreak reached them late.
“We don’t know where this problem came from, there were some security personnel when these shops were catching fire. I had the biggest shop, so we have lost almost 20,000 US dollars,” he said.