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<p>October 23, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese authorities abruptly dissolved a group for consumer protection and confiscated its assets on Sunday. The Sudanese Society for Consumer Protection (SSCP) had been already banned by the former regime in 2015.</p>
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.