Ramadan in the era of Al-Houthi ... high prices doses and looted salaries
English - Thursday 29 April 2021 الساعة 02:46 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Ion pins and needles., Umm Bassam (a Yemeni housewife - 40 years old) is waiting for a money transfer from a relative residing outside Yemen, to cover part of the requirements of Eid al-Fitr. She hopes that the expected transfer will suffice to cover the cost of the clothing of 3 children aged between 4 and 7 years .
In comparison to the average price of children's clothes, she drove a clothing of 60,000 Yemeni riyals (US $ 100) to buy a new clothing for her three children: “Buy a clothing during Ramadan and keep it until Eid al-Adha.” State employees in September 2016.
The month of Ramadan this year came to most Yemeni families in Sana'a and the governorates located in the areas of the Houthi militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen - to increase their burdens with additional burdens in light of the high prices of Ramadan food and consumer goods, the increase in price doses in the prices of oil derivatives, and the continued looting of salaries by the Houthi militia State employees.
In the Bab al-Yaman market in the old city of Sana'a, Hadi al-Haimi (50 years old - a farmer) hopes to sell about 30 kilograms of grain (agricultural crops), in order to cover the value of some of his family’s needs from the raisin commodity and the so-called (Eid gift). The retirement pension, "indicating in his speech to (NewsYemen) that some families in their social environment have forcibly abandoned the purchase of the Eid gift.
Citizens in Sanaa remember the month of Ramadan in empty years, with what was known as the month's gratuity as a monthly salary, previous Yemeni governments successively paid it annually to state employees in the public and mixed sectors, days after the previous month’s salary was disbursed before Ramadan, and days before the same month’s salary was disbursed at the end of Ramadan .
In contrast to those days (3 salaries in Ramadan), the month of Ramadan falls on the Yemenis in Sanaa and the neighboring governorates with 3 doses. The prices of oil products raised a 20-liter gasoline bear from 5900 riyals to 11 thousand riyals by 100%, while the price jumped in The black market to 15 thousand riyals on Monday, April 26.
The Houthi militia raised the price of the household gas cylinder, for which the demand increases in the month of Ramadan and Eid days, to 7 thousand riyals, an increase of 50%, and raised the price of the government electricity kilowatt from 170 riyals to 250 riyals, an increase of 20%, and this dose increased The price of commercial electricity tariff ranges from 220 riyals to 300 riyals per kilowatt.
