The top business official in Wau in Western Bahr El-Ghazal state expressed his satisfaction with the calmness of the situation in Wau town and revealed that there has been a sharp decrease in the prices of the commodities as security improves.
Mr. Wol Charles, the head of the state trade union explained to Radio Tamazuj that the trade conditions returned to normal after the recent protests which claimed the lives of more than a dozen of people besides injury of dozens of civilians which also led to the closure of markets even during the Christmas festivity.
He denied the impact of the recent events on the town’s trade position, revealing that there is now a rush of goods from the all sides and even from northern Sudan. “The entry of the loaded trucks with goods daily helped in lowering prices of the majority of the consumer goods in the town,” he added.
Last month militant youth groups blocked roads cutting off trade to the state capital from all sides and leaving truck drivers stranded at the approaches to the town unable to deliver their cargoes. During the government’s botched operation to take down the roadblocks the protesters managed to set fire to about a dozen commercial trucks.