Sudan Introduces Basic Income Scheme for Nearly All Its Population to Ease Economic Pain

Sudan Introduces Basic Income Scheme for Nearly All Its Population to Ease Economic Pain

Open gallery view Women sit together as they prepare food for their families in Khartoum, Sudan in March. For Intisar Altayib, who ekes out a living drawing henna tattoos in Khartoum, soaring prices in Sudan mean running up tabs at local stores and cutting back on evening feasts during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

She is one of millions struggling through an economic crisis that has deepened as Sudan tries to emerge from decades of isolation and conflict. Inflation has risen to more than 340 percent and there are shortages of everything from power to medicines.

To ease the pain […]

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