Khartoum — Parents with school-going children in the Sudanese capital Khartoum are complaining of the rising cost of school supplies and transportation costs at the start of the new school year yesterday.
Callers from Khartoum said that the price of the dozen large-size notebooks has increased from SDG 60 (*$2.13) to SDG110 ($3.90), a dozen of dry pens ranged from SDG 60 ($2.13) to SDG 100 ($3.55) and school bags SDG 400 ($14.20).
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