Khartoum - Al Jazeera Net

In Jackson Square, Khartoum is the hub of congestion and bus congestion. Large numbers of citizens lined up waiting for a car to take them to their homes across the capital. Citizens were forced to use trucks and ride on the bus roofs.

The segment of women most affected by their inability to compete with men in the battle to get a seat at peak times.

Dalal Nour al-Din, a 21-year-old university student, says her father, who works in one of the ministries, has increased her daily expenses to meet transportation emergencies because she is sometimes forced with three of her colleagues to apply for the Tarhal application to the suburb of Kalakala, 22 kilometers south of Khartoum, Compared to about 170 pounds (2.8 dollars).

Citizen queuing at a bakery in the capital (Al Jazeera Net)

Habitual queues
The congestion of the Sudanese in the transportation and queues, which they have been accustomed to since the beginning of this year, to get bread, money or fuel is no more than the frustration they have for lack of solutions on the horizon, according to citizens polled by Al Jazeera Net.

Queues in front of bakeries and ATMs have turned into forums to discuss the political and economic situation of the country and the prospects for change.

The alarming face of the crisis in the public transport sector of Khartoum state, already burdened with years of neglect and mismanagement, is now unable to meet the growing demand for service in the shadow of fuel shortages and spare parts due to the devaluation of the national currency. The Prime Minister of the National Council Moataz Musa with the participation of all government vehicles and deportation vehicles and vehicles allocated and administrative vehicles operating under the chairmanship of the federal and state ministries and its units in the transfer and transfer of citizens during trips to work and return from it.

The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Energy also directed to increase the quota for the state of Khartoum from gasoline and gasoline and to temporarily reduce the state quota.

The legislative council of the state of Khartoum on Wednesday launched an initiative to "back the back" to address the crisis of transport by motivating private car owners and government to take citizens during peak times on their way.

Meeting of Qosh (center) and Bilal (right) and Hussein to study the situation (Al Jazeera Net)

After security
The meeting of Director of the Security and Intelligence Salah Qosh, Interior Minister Ahmed Bilal and the Director General of the police forces, Major General Babiker Ahmed al-Hussein in the ministry, the service to the security in terms of overcrowding of citizens in the stands as it represents communities can be used to demonstrate.

One of the most prominent social networking activists in Sudan, Nasif Salaheddine, said on his Facebook page, known as "Monte Carlo News," that the directives of Qosh and Bilal were to deploy policewomen in different parts of Khartoum as well as trucks carrying half of the "Bakassi" transport in the face of any protests.

The Sudanese opposition party, the Sudanese Congress Party, has announced the opening of mass talks on Tuesday in the central market south of central Khartoum.

Waiting queues at a gas station in Khartoum (Al Jazeera Net)

Fuel queues
Drivers of public vehicles suffer from long queues for fuel as well as doubling operating costs due to the high cost of spare parts, which increased by more than 200% compared to 2017.

Mujahid, 45, who works on a bus between the central station in Khartoum North and the Shambat district, says he has to stay overnight to get gasoline.

Mujahid confirms to Al Jazeera Net that it is only necessary to increase the tariff illegally so that it can cover the operating costs. Motorists will double the tariff during the evening peak times or divide the lines into two halves.

Citizens queuing outside the ATM in Khartoum (Al Jazeera Net)

Banks are empty
Queues in banks and ATMs are increasing, reflecting the worsening of the cash shortage crisis and the recovery of the sale and purchase of the Sudanese pound, which has become a rare commodity, despite its dire decline against the dollar.

The dollar exchange rate reached 60 pounds in cash and 65 pounds during the month of June. The inflation rate was close to the 70% mark, which was 68.93% in November, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

Walid Abdullah, a government employee, was forced to stand in front of the Bank of Khartoum bank, which is being fed all day, from 1:30 pm to 6 pm Tuesday to withdraw 2,000 pounds, the limit allowed by the exchange.

According to Waleed al-Jazeera Net, he had to stand in the row again on Wednesday to withdraw again until he completes the rent of his house of 3,600 pounds (60 dollars), saying that his savings are scarce and yet find it very difficult to withdraw and sometimes ask the boss to work until he comes to the lines of ATM.

Social networking activists traded pictures of ATMs in a number of neighborhoods in Khartoum, smashing their faces at the hands of angry agents.

Although government officials bet on electronic points of sale to overcome the cash crisis, but this option in light of the non-proliferation of these points seems a luxury does not touch the reality of a simple citizen who needs money to be able to buy its supplies and the use of transportation.

On Wednesday, al-Jazeera Net monitored a security force force of one of the ovens in the Taif district of Khartoum, where bread was available in legal weights with no queues.

Despite the partial easing in the bread crisis, the queuing scene in front of the kilns continues, especially in the peripheral neighborhoods, which often suffer more in the evening.