The Sudanese government announced on Sunday the increase in wages of state employees in the budget next year in response to high cost of living indicators and inflation, which reached levels above 68%.
"The increase will be 500 pounds ($ 10) for the lowest salary structure," Sudan's trade union federation president Youssef Abdel Karim told Sudan's official news agency SUNA.
Abdel Karim said that the agreement was reached today in a meeting with the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mu'taz Moussa, as the increase up to 2,500 pounds ($ 52) to the higher grades.
He added that the meeting discussed the issues of entitlements and rights of workers who lost their jobs in their institutions such as Sudan Airlines and all those who have benefits or arrears, and indicated that the Prime Minister directed them to pay their rights immediately.
The minimum wage in Sudan is 425 pounds ($ 8.9) and has not been increased since 2013.
The country's inflation rate reached 69% in November last year, up from 68.44% in October.
In October, the Sudanese government approved a package of economic measures for the export and import sector, including the establishment of a new exchange rate for the Sudanese pound for external transfers and all export revenues.
The procedures of the Sudanese Central have included the establishment of a new independent mechanism outside the government, to determine the exchange rate of the pound against foreign currencies.
The market makers' mechanism has approved 47.5 pounds for the commercial banks and exchange banks to attract the proceeds of exports and savings of Sudanese working abroad.
Sudan is suffering from crises in bread, flour, fuel and cooking gas as a result of the rise of the dollar against the pound in parallel (unofficial) markets to record levels, sometimes exceeding 65 pounds per dollar.